They shine like dawn on an open Psalm
A knowing smile from something You said
I hunger for the daily bread of Your ways
Ah, the bread of Your ways
They glow like blue in a field of black
Illuminating the runway ahead
I love to follow the angel tread of Your way
Ah, the tread of Your ways

Chorus
I love Your ways (Your true, Your perfect ways)
I love Your ways (so beautiful to me)
Lovely always (and faithful to restore)
I love Your ways

And when I tire, they bring a second wind
A word in season, a gleam in Your eye
I love to feel the runner’s high of Your ways
I lived so long under basement floors
The flickering lights. the windowless gloom
I’m here to stay in the upper room of Your ways

Chorus

I need Your good word speaking
When there’s nothing to say
I need Your Spirit here
Breathing on me every day
Every night I need Your love’s pure light
And I’ve learned forever to trust
Ever to follow
Ever I’ll praise Your everlasting ways
Your everlasting ways
Your everlasting ways

Chorus

I love Your ways

I got your number
where love can be found
I got your number
where truth can be found
I asked you in one day
and you came into my life
I got your number
for the rest of my life

Chorus:
I can feel your love
flowing out to me
each day and night
I can see clearly now
I see your eyes in the starry skies
I can feel your life flowing out to me
with each breath I take
I can see clearly now
your Spirit has shown me the perfect way

I got your number
and I’m happy to say
you set my heart on fire
with every move you make
when you walk into a room
it lights up with your grace
I got your number now
it’s the hot line to your place

Repeat Chorus

bridge:
you say you say you want
you say you say you want
you say you say you want to be free.

you want you want you want
you want you want you want
you want you want you want to be free.

you can you can you can
you can you can you can
you can you can you can be free.

I got your number
it’s written deep within my heart
you filled that emptiness
and lighted up a new part
there’s much more to life
than other numbers on the wall
I got you number
it’s burning deep within my soul

Repeat Chorus…

Oi. Boy. Got a new gig?
It’s jammin’ your brain like a too-tight wig.
Stuff this new religious phase.
Your home is here in the yellow haze.
Oi. Boy. What are you doin’?
Wearing your faith like a new tattoo
when friends and formers don’t approve this.
(Brillo pads will not remove this.)

I cannot get you, I do not want you out of my system.
I cannot get you, I do not want you out of my head.

Oi. Boy. What are you on?
We’d try to help you but you’re too far gone.
First we thought you’d be rejecting us.
Now we’re scared you’ll start infecting us.
Oi. Boy. Come again.
Someday soon it’ll all sink in,
as all your efforts to inspire us spread like some computer virus.

I cannot get you, I do not want you out of my system.
I cannot get you, I do not want you out of my head.

Always stalled by hidden fears,
always stuck in neutral gears
until I gave the driver’s seat away.
Take my life and make it real.
Turn the key and take the wheel.
Push the throttle through the floor, evermore…

I cannot get you, I do not want you out of my system.
I cannot get you, I do not want you out of my head.

Through You the blind will see
Through You the mute will sing
Through You the dead will rise
Through You all hearts will praise
Through You the darkness flees
Through You my heart screams, I am free!

I am free to run
(I am free to run)
I am free to dance
(I am free to dance)
I am free to live for you
(I am free to live for you)
I am free
(I am free)

Chorus:
I am free
I am free
I am free to run
(I am free to run)
I am free to dance
(I am free to dance)
I am free to live for you
(I am free to live for you
I am free
(I am free)
Yes I am free

REPEAT X1

I see the neon lights
As they light the city sky.
I see a desperate boy
At the moment that he cries.
I see him reaching out.
His hand is to the sky.
I’m tellin you, don’t let go.
God is on your side.

Hold on tight, never let Him go.
Hold on tight, hold on.

I feel the innocence.
He’s washed my sins away.
I’m not afraid of the future now.
His will is here to stay.
Reach out and hold on tight.
He’s with you all the time.
I’m telling you, don’t let go.
God is on your side.

Hold on tight, never let Him go.
Hold on tight, hold on.

Keep on reaching out to Him.
He’s with you all the time.
Don’t ever, ever let go.
God is on your side.

Hold on tight, never let Him go.
Hold on tight, hold on.
Hold on tight, never let Him go.
Hold on tight, never let Him go.
Hold on tight, never let Him go.
Hold on tight, hold on.

Things are getting tough.
You got to hang in there.
When you’re just about to quit,
Let God be God.
When your back’s against the wall,
His love will be true.
When you’re feeling two feet tall,
Stand upon the rock.

You won’t be afraid for He is with you.
Don’t be afraid for He is with you.

He’s comin’ back like He promised He would.
Let’s be ready when the trumpet sounds.
He’s comin’ back like He promised He would.
Let’s be ready when the trumpet sounds.
He’s comin’ back like He promised He would.
Let’s be ready when the trumpet sounds.
He’s comin’ back like He promised He would.
Let’s be ready when the trumpet sounds.

Things are getting tough.
You got to hang in there.
(Hang in there.)
When you’re just about to quit,
Let God be God.
(God be God.)
When your back’s against the wall,
His love will be true.
(Will be true.)
When you’re feeling two feet tall,
Stand upon the rock.
(On the rock.)

You won’t be afraid for He is with you.
Don’t be afraid for He is with you.

He’s comin’ back like He promised He would.
Let’s be ready when the trumpet sounds.
He’s comin’ back like He promised He would.
Let’s be ready when the trumpet sounds.
He’s comin’ back like He promised He would.
Let’s be ready when the trumpet sounds.
He’s comin’ back like He promised He would.
Let’s be ready when the trumpet sounds.

Things are getting tough.
You got to hang in there.
When you’re just about to quit,
Let God be God.
When your back’s against the wall,
His love will be true.
When you’re feeling two feet tall,
Stand upon the rock.

You won’t be afraid for He is with you.
Don’t be afraid for He is with you.

He’s comin’ back like He promised He would.
Let’s be ready when the trumpet sounds.
He’s comin’ back like He promised He would.
Let’s be ready when the trumpet sounds.
He’s comin’ back like He promised He would.
Let’s be ready when the trumpet sounds.
He’s comin’ back like He promised He would.
Let’s be ready when the trumpet
When the trumpet
When the trumpet sounds.

It’s the song of the redeemed
Rising from the African plain
It’s the song of the forgiven
Drowning out the Amazon rain
The song of Asian believers
Filled with God’s holy fire
It’s every tribe, every tounge, every nation
A love song born of a grateful choir

(chorus) (x2)
It’s all God’s children singin’
Glory, glory, hallelujah
He reigns,(pause) He reigns

Let it rise above the fore-winds
Caught up in the heavenly sound
Let praises echo from the towers of cathedrals
To the faithful gathered underground
Of all the songs sung from the dawn of creation
Some were meant to persist
Of all the bells rung from a thousand steaples
None rings truer than this

(chorus)(x4)

And all the powers of darkness
Tremble at what they’ve just heard
Cause all the powers of darkness
Can’t drown out a single word

(chorus)(till end)
When all God’s children sing out
Glory Glory Hallelujah
He reigns,(pause) He reigns

All God’s children sing out
Glory Glory Hallelujah
He reigns, (pause) He reigns

All God’s people singin
Glory Glory Hallelujah
He Reigns, (pause) He reigns
(back to orig. chorus)

I’m looking up
Holdiing out
Pressing forward
Without a doubt
Longing for the things unseen
Longing for the things I believe
My true country

We hope and wait
For the glorious day
All tears will vanish
Wiped away
On the saints this day already shines
On the saints this day already shines
It already shines

(chorus)
We’ll be singing hallelujah
We’ll be singing hallelujah
At the top of our lungs halle-le-lujah
(With all of our breath halle-le-lujah)
To Your glory, hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah

And I know that it’s coming
But I can’t see it now
And I’ve touched it in moments
But I can’t hold it yet
And it glows in the darkness
And it calls us away
To our true destination
To that glorious day

(chorus)

step into the sunlight so bright
Illumination blocking out night
She knows that the promises are airtight
There is no doubt and you can see it in her eyes

You’ll hear her singing to heaven - even
Without letting out a word to be heard
In every single situation (none too big - none too small)
She looks up and the world looks on

She sings hallelujah
When all has become nothing
And her hope in the saviour
Has colored all she does
And taints the way she loves

She sings hallelujah
And falls to the ground again
With hands stretched up to the sky
Waiting for the day
She’ll hear the father say…

Step into the spotlight - so bright
A character check in the dead of night
To cut the stays of reason, till death defy
All understanding in the neighbour’s eye
To run the race like this day’s the last celebrate
In all we do and all we say look up
‘Cause the world looks on

We sing hallelujah
When all has become nothing
Our hope in the saviour
Has colored all we do
Let it be for you

We’ll sing hallelujah
And fall to the ground again
With hands stretched up to the sky
We’re waiting for the day
We’ll hear the father say
Yeah, to hear him say
“Well done, good and faithful one
Enter in, come on, and share with me
Welcome home good and faithful one
On an on through eternity…”

If I rise on wings of dawn
Or drift in seas of doubt
Even there, your strong right hand
Has never failed to guide me out

(chorus)
Great is Your faithfullness
To carry on with a sinner like me
Great is Your faithfullness
Turning shame into victory
Your grace has never let me be
Your mercy’s waited patiently
Oh, so great is Your faitfullness
To carry on with a sinner like me

If I hide in dark and shadows
Fearfull of each day
Even there
Your blinding light illuminates my pathway

(chorus)

Lord, Your goodness
Goodness never
Never fails
It never fails me

(chorus)