The Struggle

Tenth Avenue North The Struggle Lyrics
1.Shadows

We're born into the longing
With hearts, bent toward possessing
All that our eyes are seeing
Our souls, they never stop wanting
Beauty never intended to be more than a reflection

Oh, Lord, light up my dark eyes
Teach me to let go
I've been runnin'
Chasing nothing but shadows

My heart is an ocean raging
And Your grace is all that keeps me from drowning
My mind creates deceptions
So I cling the treasure sinking

Oh, Lord, light up my dark eyes
Teach me to let go
I've been runnin'
Chasing nothing but shadows
Oh, Lord, please come and
Raise my dead heart, let me know
You can keep me from
Chasing after the shadows

All that I run to, all that I cling to
Everything seems to only slip through my hands
All that I run to, all that I cling to
Everything seems to only slip through my hands

But I keep running, I keep chasing
Left holding on to only the after glow
Lord, light up my eyes, let me follow You
To the source behind all the shadows

I keep running, I keep chasing
Left holding on to only the after glow
Lord, light up my eyes, let me follow You
To the source behind all the shadows
Oh, Lord, light up my dark eyes
Teach me to let go
I've been runnin'
Chasing nothing but shadows

Oh, Lord, please come and
Raise my dead heart, let me know
You can keep me from
Chasing after the shadows
The shadows
Keep runnin', keep runnin', keep runnin'


2.The Struggle

There's a wreckage, there's a fire
There's a weakness in my love
There's a hunger I can't control
Lord I falter and I fall down
Then I hold on to the chains you broke
When You came down and saved my soul
Save my soul

Hallelujah
We are free to struggle
We're not struggling to be free
Your blood bought and makes us children
So children drop your chains and sing

So I look, do I still fail
Do I withhold, do I still give into temptation
On my own I am bankrupt
I will trust You, I'll take you at your word
You promise

Hallelujah
We are free to struggle
We're not struggling to be free
Your blood bought and makes us children
So children drop your chains and sing

Hallelujah, death is overcome
and we are breathing
Hallelujah our stone hearts become flesh
a flesh that's beating
Hallelujah chains have been undone
and we are singing
Hallelujah the fire has begun
can you feel it?

Hallelujah, death is overcome
and we are breathing
Hallelujah our stone hearts become flesh
a flesh that's beating
Hallelujah chains have been undone
and we are singing
Hallelujah the fire has begun
can you feel it?

Hallelujah
We are free to struggle
We're not struggling to be free
Your blood bought and makes us children
So children drop your chains and sing
(Ooh's)


3.Worn

I'm Tired I'm worn
My heart is heavy
From the work it takes to keep on breathing
I've made mistakes
I've let my hope fail
My soul feels crushed by the weight of this world
And I know that you can give me rest
So I cry out with all that I have left

Let me see redemption win
Let me know the struggle ends
That you can mend a heart that's frail and torn
I wanna know a song can rise from the ashes of a broken life
And all that's dead inside can be reborn
Cause I'm worn

I know I need to lift my eyes up
But im too weak
Life just won't let up
And I know that you can give me rest
So I cry out with all that I have left

Let me see redemption win
Let me know the struggle ends
That you can mend a heart that's frail and torn
I wanna know a song can rise from the ashes of a broken life
And all that's dead inside can be reborn
Cause I'm worn
My prayers are wearing thin
And I'm worn
Even before the day begins
I'm worn
I've lost my will to fight
I'm worn
Heaven come and flood my eyes

Let me see redemption win
Let me know the struggle ends
That you can mend a heart that's frail and torn
I wanna know a song can rise from the ashes of a broken life
And all that's dead inside can be reborn
Cause all that's dead inside will be reborn

Though I'm worn
Yeah I'm worn


4.Losing

I can't believe what she said...
I can't believe what he did
Oh, don't they know it's wrong?
Don't they know it's wrong?
Maybe there's something I missed?
But how could they treat me like this?
It's wearing out my heart
The way they disregard, oh...

This is love
This is hate
We all have a choice to make

Oh, Father won't You forgive them
They don't know what they've been doing
Oh Father, give me grace to forgive them
Cause I feel like the one losing

It's only the dead that can live
But still I wrestle with this
To lose the pain that's mine
Seventy times seven times
Oh but Lord it doesn't feel right
For me to turn a blind eye
Although I guess it's not that much
When I think of what You've done.

This is love
This is hate...
We got a choice to make!

Oh Father won't You forgive them
They don't know what they've been doin' (oh no)
Oh Father, give me grace to forgive them
Cause I feel like the one losing

Why do we think that our hate's going change their heart
We're up in arms over wars that don't need to be fought
But pride won't let us lay our weapons on the ground
We build our bridges up, but just to burn them down
We think pain owns the apologies and then it'll stop
But truth be told it doesn't matter if they're sorry or not
Freedom comes when we surrender to the sound
Of Your mercy and Your grace
Father, send Your angels down

Oh Father wont you forgive them
They don't know what they've been doing
Oh Father, give me grace to forgive them
Cause I feel like the one losing
I feel like I've been losing

Oh Father give me grace to forgive them...
Cause I feel like the one losing


5.Don't Stop The Madness

There's a beggar down inside of me
Standing on the corner of the street
And my shame is my only company
Can use some cash, but can't admit my need
For what you've got and what I could receive
I need you love to come and break the silence

Don't stop the madness
Don't stop the chaos
Don't stop the pain surrounding me
Don't be afraid, love, to break my heart
Just bring me down to my knees, yeah

All I hear is what they're selling me
That God is love, he isn't suffering
And what you need's a little faith and prosperity
But, oh my God, I know there's more than this
If you promise pain it can't be meaningless
So make me poor if that's the price for freedom

Don't stop the madness
Don't stop the chaos
Don't stop the pain surrounding me
Don't be afraid, love, to break my heart
If it brings me down to my knees, yeah

In a marriage lost
And the cry in the dark
Don't stop with your love
And the mother's tear
For the child that starves
Don't stop with your love
When we're breaking down
We're falling apart
Don't stop with your love
And with new eyes to see
This is your mercy
Don't stop with your love

Don't stop the madness
Don't stop the chaos
Don't stop the pain inside of me
Do whatever it takes to give me your heart
And bring me down to my knees, Lord


6.Where Life Will Never Die

I'm waking up again
In this land of shadows
My eyes are growing dim
Lured toward the gallows
So light my soul ablaze
A field on fire
Take me to that place
Of one desire

O tempted heart, come alive
I feel you burning inside
Weary soul, lift your eyes
To a city where life will never die

But the dark and immediate
They come so easy
So I keep on giving in
To the things that kill me

O tempted heart, come alive
I feel you burning inside
Weary soul, lift your eyes
To a city where life will never die
This rusted world can't satisfy
There's nothing here that will survive
The night will end
The sun will rise
On a city where life will never die

Dark eyes, look up
See a kingdom come
Burn within our lungs
Further up, further on
Higher
Take me higher

O tempted heart, come alive
I feel you burning inside
Weary soul, lift up your eyes
To a city where life will never die
'Cause this rusted world can't satisfy
There's nothing here that will survive
The night will end
The sun will rise
On a city where life will never die

Oh the city, the city will never die, no


7.Strangers Here

I know you're tired of the hurt and the heartache
You feel like giving in, you feel like walking away
And I know it's difficult feeling so out of place
But this is not how it's gonna be
Your pain is temporary

We're all strangers here
So it's alright if you can't
Stop the tears that you cry
'Cause some day we'll touch the face of our God
And the sorrow will disappear
Until then, we're strangers here

That's hard to hear if you want to keep chasing
This broken world that only keeps your heart breaking
So if you're scared 'cause you think that you're missing out
This is not the ending
No, this is not the ending

We're all strangers here
So it's alright if you can't
Stop the tears that you cry
'Cause some day we'll touch the face of our God
And the sorrow will disappear
Until then, we're strangers here

This is not the homeland
We can see the lights from here
He's making us a city
Where there are no fears
And it's drawing near

Until then, we're strangers here
We're just strangers here
We're all strangers here
So it's alright if you can't
Stop the tears that you cry
'Cause some day we'll touch the face of our God
And the sorrow will disappear
Until then, we're strangers here


8.Grace

Oh can you hear
Hear mercy sing
She cries to bitter hearts
And your suffering
Oh, please let go
Give up your fight
Holding back your love
Will never make things right

It's gonna be okay
Okay, tonight

Cause grace, only grace
Can roll your dead hearts's stone away yeah
Grace, only grace
Can move to us to a rhythm that will change our ways

Oh, listen to love
And let pride hit the ground
If joy is the armor
It can't be broken down
But if hate is the fuel
No one will win
When we love till we're empty
That's where life begins

Grace, only grace
Can roll your dead heart's stone away
Grace, only grace
Can move to us to a rhythm that will change our ways

Come and move me
Oh come and move me now
Grace, grace
Only you can
Lift up what holds me down
Yeah

Grace, only grace
Can roll your dead hearts's stone away
Grace, only grace
Can move to us to a rhythm that will change our ways
Can move me to that rhythm and can change my name


9.All The Same

A thousand voices
A thousand lives
A thousand prayers rise in the night
What is it we seek?
So many stories
Lord, I hear
And all these questions in my ear
Can we come out clean?

Different faces
Different fears
Different failures lead us here
Show us how
We're all the same
Desperate for a change
We're all the same
We need your love
We need your love

We take our secrets
To the grave
Spend our lives out in the shame
Afraid to show our needs
But as we run our hands
Along these scars
May they tell us who we are
We are the redeemed

Different faces
Different fears
Different failures lead us here
Show us how
We're all the same
All desperate for a change
We're all the same
We need your love
We're all the same
With hands held out for grace
We're all the same
We need your love
We need your love
We need your love

So if we're casting stones
If we've forgotten what we know
That we don't walk alone in this life
Let your love
Get inside our bones
Lay it deep within us, grow
May we bring in the ones left outside

'Cause we're all the same
All desperate for a change
We're all the same
We need your love
We're all the same
With hands held out for grace
We're all the same
We need your love
We need your love

I need your love


10.Hostage Of Peace

Feel the silence
There's war beneath our skin
Let it begin
It's hard to fight
It's hard to lead resistance
It's our hearts we're up against

This world it keeps us
Promising freedom
We thought we could belong
But we don't belong here
Don't let us wander
To arms of another
Oh father, yours forever
Let us be a hostage of peace

We need a rescue
Need a love we can't resist
Or break our defenses
Take us captive
Take our thoughts and take control
We're losing control
Yeah!

This world it keeps us
Promising freedom
We thought we could belong
But we don't belong here
Don't let us wander
To arms of another
Oh father, yours forever
Let us be a hostage of peace

If we're fighting
Let it be for your kingdom
If we're violent
Let it be against ourselves
Come arrest us
With your affection
Give us freedom
Make our need our only declaration

Oh father, keep us
They promised freedom
We though we could belong
But we don't belong here
Don't let us wander
To arms of another
Oh father, yours forever
Let us be a hostage of peace

I'm your hostage


11.You Do All Things Well

Father in heaven, hear this simple prayer
Get us through the night and fill up our despair
Pain has come, taught us to fear
We're gonna need some grace, God
to fill the air

cause in the twilight
we need eyes to see
how You're working beauty
even out of ugly things

You do all things
You do all things
You do all things well
You do all things
You do all things
You do all things well
yeah

Father among us
keep us in your arms
there's evil all around us
and we're trying to hold on

just to know
that You're still good
that Your love is alive
oh, let's cling to Jesus
and sing tonight

You do all things
You do all things
You do all things well
You do all things
You do all things
You do all things well

You break me to bind me
You hurt me, lord, to heal me
You cut me to touch me
You died to revive me
You break me to bind me
You hurt me, lord, to heal me
You cut me to touch me
You died to revive me

oh, oh, oh, oh
oh, oh, oh, oh

You do all things
You do all things
You do all things well
You do all things
You do all things
You do all things well


12.Lamb Of God

King of all the earth and every age
All creation waits for You, and trembles at Your name
Surrounded on a throne of endless praise
Fire and lighting flash from the glory of Your face

And I sing to You:

You are holy
You are worthy
You are holy
You're the Lamb of God

How do I dare approach
This Holy One
The One who was and is..
Was and is to come

Robed in righteousness and mystery,
We have only just begun to see
So I come broken through
The blood of your Son and I kneel before You

You are holy
You are worthy
You are holy
You're the Lamb of God

Blessing and honor,
And glory and power
To Him who sits on the throne

Blessing and honor
And glory and power
Forever to our God alone

You are holy
You are worthy
You are holy
You're the Lamb of God

You are Holy Lord
Holy God
You are Holy Lord


13.A Kingdom Come

How many tears will I have cried
Before you wipe them from my eyes
And how dark will this night become
Before the rising of the sun
And all the while,
You lead through the fire up to
Somewhere beyond my fear

And all I have is love and desire
That one day You'll appear

Your kingdom come
Your will be done
Let that be all I want
And as I wait to see Your face
Keep my head lifted up
To a kingdom come, come, come

How many troubles will I know
Before I see Your justice roll
Yeah, I admit my faith is weak
Lord, come and help my unbelief

'Cause all I have is the hope and desire
That you'll have mercy here

Your kingdom come
Your will be done
Let that be all I want
And as I wait to see Your face
Keep my head lifted up
To a kingdom come, come, come

I know You're working
I know You're moving here
Your grace, a river running
Underneath my fears
Let all my questions
And all my doubts collide
With the promise
You are making all things right

Your kingdom come
Your will be done
Let that be all I want
And as I wait to see Your face
Keep my head lifted up
Keep my head lifted up
To a kingdom come, come, come
To a kingdom come, come, come
Till Your kingdom come, come, comes