OVERCOME LYRICS

1. Intro

[Instrumental]

2. Reverence Part II

In You I will find my peace. In You I will find my strength.
You’re the one that lifts my head. I will not be ashamed... ashamed.

All I have is in You, all I need is from You.
Lift up my eyes. You have put the joy that’s in my heart.
Lift up my voice. For in You is where I find hope.
Lift up my eyes. You have put the joy that’s in my heart.
Lift up my voice. For in You is where I find hope.

Let them ever sing for joy, and may you shelter them,
that those who love Your name may exalt in You... You... in You.

You’re wonderful. I’m powerless in Your arms.
You’ve shown me love in the surrounds of hate, and restored my strength,
and I proclaim my life is Yours. So break my will, and surely not in vain.
I keep my life pure for great is my reward.

3. Body Of Death

What a wretched man I am!
Who will deliver me from this body of death?
Yes, I am carnal, sold as a slave to my sin.

For in my inner being I delight in God’s law,
but I see another law at work in the members of my body,
waging war against the law of my mind,
making me prisoner to the law of sin at work within my members.

Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors...
Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors... through Him who loved us.

What a wretched man I am!
Who will deliver me from this body of death?
Thanks be to God – through Jesus Christ our Lord.

4. Profession

In... in this life there’s so much distraction it seems to consume my mind.
All the time that I’ve spent on nothing, it could make an endless line.

The shortness of our time in this life should cause an urgency, a passion for what lasts.
Eternity is the line that we must cast... cast.

This is the line our hearts’ blood must sign...
This is the line our hearts’ blood must sign...
to be completely sold out, to firmly plant our feet, to stand,
to never compromise our stance and lift the weak when they can’t stand... stand.

This song is my profession. These words you hear are mine.
This life is not my own life. This is my heart’s resign... resign.

This is my heart’s resign. This is my heart’s resign.
This is my heart’s resign. This is my heart’s resign.

5. Alone In A Crowd

Friends with words of scoffing strike my cheek with scorn.
They mass and stand as one against me.
How long will they crush me with their words?
Great brick walls in building – bridges they’ve long burned.
They’ve walled up my way and I cannot pass. Darkness has set upon my paths.

All of my cherished friends abhor me and turn against me.
My bones stick to my skin and flesh, and I’ve escaped with the skin of my teeth.
All of my cherished friends abhor me and turn against me.
My bones stick to my skin and flesh, and I’ve escaped with the skin of my teeth.

Who is on my side? Who is on my side?

Who is on my side? Who is on my side?
Who is on my side? Who is on my side?

Who...
Before the war everyone was on my side. When I hit the ground no help had followed.
Before the war everyone was on my side. When I hit the ground no help had followed.

I have not come to bring peace, I have come to bring a sword.

6. The Breath Of He Who Kills

Though saturated in blood I’m standing still in fear.
I feel the tears of those who mourn and the breath of he who kills. I feel it on my face.
My heart cries to speak, my lungs gasp to breathe, for he’s got me by the throat.

His grip is on me clutching me tight, shadowing black and holding me from God’s light.
His grip is on me as dark as the night, spewing blasphemy and taking my sight.
He suffocates our life supply and manipulates the Word by which we survive.
He suffocates our life supply and manipulates the Word by which we survive.

Though saturated in blood I’m standing still in fear.
I feel the tears of those who mourn and the breath of he who kills.
I hear the sounds of hate. My thoughts are clouded by pain.
My ears are filled with lies for his words pierce my ears.

His voice deafens and silenced through this death,
as my lungs fill with the breath of He who gives life.

7. Seeker Sensitive

Your masses, they come in droves, assemblies of misguided bones.
Oh the blessings, with just enough faith. Their healings pass by with the plate... plate.

Manipulate the people for a show, destruction to the Kingdom as you grow.

"Depart from me, I never knew you." "Depart from me, I never knew you."

You will build your house on sand. The rain will descend, the floods will come.

Great will be your house’s fall. Great will be your house’s fall.
Great will be your house’s fall. Great will be your house’s fall.

8. Amnesty

Your words aside, I search your face to read your heart,
to know intent and learn motives for your actions.
Your will is to hurt. You speak in spite. In haste you judge.

Amnesty...

Eyes that pierce – pierce through and try to find my faults.
Tongue like a sword. I try to put it aside but it eats me alive.
I try to put it aside but it eats me alive.

God, I pray give me strength to love all my enemies. And do unto them...
God, I pray give me strength to love all my enemies. And do unto them...
...as I would have them do unto me.

9. Clemency

I was born dead inside. There was no life, I could do nothing.
In spite of me You showed Your grace, gifted me life. I deserve death.

Where could I go to escape Your love? Where could I hide from Your clemency?
Where could I go to escape Your love? Where could I hide from Your clemency?

You sought me out, paid the price, bought my death, and I can only praise You.
You sought me out and paid the price, bought my death, I can only praise You.
You sought me out and paid the price, bought my death, I can only praise You.
I can only praise You.

Where could I go to escape Your love? Where could I hide from Your clemency?
Where could I go to escape Your love? Where could I hide from Your clemency?

I was born dead inside, there was no life, I could do nothing.
In spite of me You showed Your grace, gifted me life. I deserve death.
Yet You bring life. Yet You bring life.

10. Lifting The Weak

Why seek out the truth in a world of lies to unmask right in wrong’s disguise;
to be sincere in the crowds that fall, and not to be satisfied with less than your all?... all?

Lifting of the weak starts inside. Your compromise, choose your side or stand aside.

Your pride can be your best friend or your enemy.
It can tear from side to side to mediocrity.
Faith in what can be accomplished with your life –
decide to choose a higher standard for your fight... fight.

Your life sets the stage, be strong in your beliefs,
and lend a helping hand to lift the weak to stand.
Lifting... lifting... lifting... lifting up the weak.

Lifting of the weak starts inside.
Your... your compromise, choose your side or stand aside.... aside.

11. Campaign Of Sabotage

Love not the world, the lust of the flesh.
Separate us, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life. God forgive us.

This world passes away, but the Word we have will last forever... forever.

We have become deaf to the cries that surround us.
Rise up, reject the lies. Be like Christ, fight the good fight.

[Quote from the book "Mere Christianity", written by C. S. Lewis:]
"One of the things that surprised me when I first read the New Testament seriously was that it talked so much about a (There is a) Dark Power in the universe – a mighty evil spirit who was held to be the Power behind death and disease, and sin. The difference (between Christianity and Dualism) is that Christianity thinks this Dark Power was created by God, and was good when he was created, and went wrong. Christianity agrees with Dualism that this universe is at war. But it does not think (that) this war is between independent powers. It thinks it is a civil war, a rebellion, and that we are living in a part of the universe occupied by the rebel. Enemy-occupied territory – that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful King has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in a great campaign of sabotage."

This is the great campaign of sabotage. This is the great campaign of sabotage.
This is the great campaign of sabotage. This is the great campaign of sabotage.

12. Outro

[Instrumental]






OVERCOME LYRICS