I'll Lead

Words & music: michael w. smith and brent bourgeois

My life is like a racing car hurtling towards the wall
At the speed of sound
My time has been so finely tuned
But i've never seen a human being so tightly wound
At times it seems beyond belief
I just need a bit of relief
Like a war-weary soldier
Marching up and over the edge
Take my hand and pull me up cause i'm falling too fast
Somehow i've lost my way - i'm cryin' save me

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Can you hear me...i'm calling out
I'm crying out...a cry for love
I can feel you...you're touching me
You healing me...my cry for love

I will be the first to admit
I don't have the strength to handle it alone anymore
I don't have to fret, don't have to explain
All my worrying's in vain
I'm not alone anymore

Why is this so hard to believe
What is mine is mine to freely receive
Like the changing of seasons
This is the beauty of the word
And for all that i have seen and heard
Oh i want to come home
Somehow i'll make my way - my way home to you

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Bridge:
Oh father hear my call (oh father hear my call)
I know you'll catch me when i fall
Oh father hear my call
I know you'll catch me when i fall
Oh i pray that you'll hold me now
Hold me
And take my fear away

I'm cryin' save me
Oh i know that you can hear me
Hear me crying out for love
Oh i know that you can feel my cry for love...ooh...

I can feel you - you're calling out
You're crying out - a cry for love
I can feel you - you're touching me
You're healing me - my cry for love

Words & music: michael w. smith and bob farrell

Hey boy - did you find out
Whatcha had to know - 'n what it's all about
When you started to move - just a step at a time
You never wanted to fall
You took a chance on the wild side
Hey, girl - can'tcha come down
Are ya way at the top - afraid of somethin' you found
Then you try to go back - not as easy to do
Did you find who you are
From a dance on the wild side

I know sometimes it's hard for you
To keep your feet upon the path that you've chosen
It's not for you to walk alone
Together we can take this road where it's going - hang on

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Stand by me - stand right here
The time has come to say it clear
Now don't give up - but don't give in
We will stand together to the end
And i'll be around - i'll be around, yeah

No joke - the sooner you find
It happens all the same - for every mother's child
When you walk in the dark - then you stumble and fall
It's a part of it all
When we dance on the wild side

But everybody needs someone
Who loves 'em through the toughest times - while they're growing - yah
Who keeps a candle burning
When the darkness covers up the path where they're going - hang on

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Stand by me - stand right here
The time has come to say it clear
Now don't give up - don't give in
We will stand together to the end
And i'll be around - come what may
Heaven hears us when we pray
So don't give up - but don't give in
We will stand together to the end
I will be there, my good friend
And i'll be around

Be around, i'll be around...
I'll walk this road with you
Wherever it may wind
And i'll be around

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Words & music: michael w. smith and wayne kirkpatrick

If they were to write about
The story of my life
They would have to mention you
With every page they'd write
There's another side to every story told
If i were the ocean
You would be the shore
And one without the other one
Would be needing something more
We are the shadow and the light

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Always love me
(and) never leave me now
(and) now you are the other side of me
Always love me
(and) never leave me now
(and) now you are the other side of me

I have known the emptiness
Of feeling out of touch
And living life without you here
Would be living half as much
Cause i've a need that only you can fill

If love was mathematical
You'd understand the sum
To the heart's equation
Where one and one makes one
And lonely equals me minus you

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Words & music: michael w. smith and wayne kirkpatrick

Wasn't it long ago
Wasn't it on a new england coast
Wasn't it the standard - people praying to
The son and the father and the holy ghost
One nation over god
Is that what we've now become?
The founding fathers left a noble legacy
To their sons and daughters
To their sons and daughters
Look at what we've done
Look at what we've done

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Breakdown, breakdown, breakdown
As we learn to bite the hand
That tries to feed us
Breakdown, breakdown, breakdown
If we say that we are free
Who will believe us
If we breakdown, breakdown, breakdown
Breakdown, break

See the powder on the glass
See the pillow on the street
See the charter of a modern love
With no obligations...or promises to meet

Hear the fear of disease
Hear the baby never born
Hear a people crying out
"somebody save us - oh, please somebody save us
From what we're headed for - from what we're headed for"

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Breakdown, breakdown, breakdown
As we learn to bite the hand
That tries to feed us
Breakdown, breakdown, breakdown

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Words & music: michael w. smith and brent bourgeois

When i'm down when my soul's in need of rest
Come your words of comfort and of hope
I see your face always smiling back at me
A stream of light shining straight to the heart
Child of god, child of light
There'll be no more lonely nights
Cause you have brightened up my life

There's a road that leads me to this place
A path of love running straight to the heart

Over the years i've learned one important thing
It's that real friends shall never truly be apart
You were there in my darkest time of need
With a hand reaching straight to the heart

Child of god, child of light
There'll be no more lonely nights
Cause you have brightened up my life

Take this gift, it is all i have to give
A prayer of love forever straight to the heart

Words & music: michael w. smith and wayne kirkpatrick

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Calling heaven
Seeking mercy
Tell me there's a place for these
What of the children who have never felt a love
Tender as the morning
Nursing the bruises
And the scars that never seem to go away

What of the babies who have never left the womb
Breathing in the lifeline
Angels in waiting
Gone before they could be given wings to fly

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What of the noble who are searching for the truth
With truest of intentions
And yet they're jaded by
Hypocrisies behind cathedral walls

What of the humble and the meek that knew despair
And never got their moment
But sacrificed a life of comfort
So that others knew no pain

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What of the ones who call you lord
But play the field
With faithless indecision
Forgive us father for we truly
Do not know what we have done

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Words & music: michael w. smith & wayne kirkpatrick

You breathe in me
And i'm alive
With the power of your holiness
You breathe in me
And you revive
Feelings in my soul
That i have laid to rest
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So breathe in me
I need you now
I've never felt so dead within
So breathe in me
Maybe somehow
You can breathe new life
In me again

I used to be
So sensitive
To the light that leads
To where you are

Now i've acquired
These callouses
With the darkness of
A cold and jaded heart

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