Irreplaceable

Verse 1
Every girl longs to be
The beautiful princess one day to be queen
And every boy wants to be
The hero to sweep her off her feet
But what happened in between
From innocent child to broken dreams
Is this now really all we were meant to be?

Verse 2
Every woman can feel it
A hole deep inside her heart
Every man needs to know it
Is he, is he enough?
But what happens when the world
Has thrown its worst at us
When bruised and battered, hurt and wounded
We cease to love

Chorus
This world needs you
It needs your strength, it needs your love
This world needs you
It's going to need all of us
So don't hide anymore
You are beautiful, you need to know
The light of your soul, the part that you hold
Your heart, irreplaceable

Verse 3
Lonely people, lost and hopeless
Living just to get through the day
Empty steeple, trapped outside
Broken hearts pushed away
If only we could see them and love them
Reach out, be unconditional friends
How amazing, how glorious would we be then

Bridge
Every heart can be mended
And every life once broken be made whole again
Every child once abandoned
And every wound mishandled can find healing from our hands
We love because He first loved us
Darkness falls but be strong and courageous

Chorus
This world needs you
It needs your hands, it needs your voice
This world needs you
It needs your arms of love to the fatherless
So don't run anymore
Your courage and mine, it's going to need us all
To one lonely soul, you are their last hope
You are irreplaceable

[20/02/08]

Above The Water

This was written on 26/05/07. Hope you like it.

Verse 1
Tell me why I'm still standing here
I've been slipping away for so long
Surely I should have been gone by now

Chorus
But it's You who holds me high
It's You who keeps me anchored to this life
It's You who holds my head above the water

Verse 2
So many times I thought I'd breathed my last
The air is too thin down here
As the icy water drowns me, it feels like the end

Verse 3
I cried out for You to save me
But at the same time tried to swim away
Too late I realised I was sinking

Bridge
Darkness consumed me, I couldn't breathe
But through the pain I saw You walk across the raging ocean
And You held my head above the water

Where Are We Now

Here's my Father's Day song. Trying to find time to record it properly but til then, here are the lyrics, should anyone wish for them... kaPOOF! Here they are. Thanks to all those who said encouragifying things when I sang it at church; it gathered a somewhat unexpected response. Thanks most of all to GOD who helped me write it and sing it without crying. Though the writing part was accompanied by much crying.

Verse 1
We've had our ups and downs
Our moments in the clouds
Words exchanged that we didn't mean
Where are we now?

Verse 2
From birth to teenage years
Seen my laughter, seen my tears
Misunderstandings and happy endings
Where are we now?

Pre
I know I haven't always been the daughter I should be
But there's something you should know
A confession to you from me

Chorus
Daddy, I love you
Can't always show it, don't always say it
But I do
Daddy, I love you
Daddy, I love you
We're both not perfect, works incomplete
But it's true
Daddy, I love you

Verse 3
Must be hard behind the scenes
Food, clothes, house, and school fees
My first steps then teenage rebellion
But look how far we've come

Verse 4
One day your little girl
Will be all grown up
We look back to this day
Where are we now?