Song For My Sons

Sara Groves Song Lyrics

This is a song for my sons for when they understand it
You know how life is full you know we couldn't plan it
Your dad and I prayed for strength and understanding
For things we couldn't see or comprehend

This is a song from my heart a small refrain to hold you
For times when we're apart and I cannot console you
I can't say your life will always go like it should
But I can say that God is always good

And when the cold wind blows like I know it will
And when you feel alone like I know you will
And when the cold wind blows like I know it will

Don't let your love grow
Don't let your love grow
Don't let your love grow cold

This is a song for my sons for when they understand it
You know how life is full you know we couldn't plan it
Your dad and I prayed for your strength and understanding
For things we couldn't see or comprehend

This is a song for you, to carry in your pocket
Take all our love with you in all the paths you walk in
Be honest with yourself and don't forget to pray
And read your bible everyday

And when the cold wind blows like I know it will
And when you feel alone like I know you will
And when the cold wind blows like I know it will

I am praying...
Don't let your love grow
Don't let your love grow
Don't let your love grow cold

Don't let your love grow
Don't let your love grow
Don't let your love grow cold

This is a song for you
All of my love for you

This is a song for my sons for when they understand it
You know how life is full you know we couldn't plan it
Your dad and I prayed for your strength and understanding
For things we couldn't see or comprehend

In The Girl There’s A Room

Sara Groves Song Lyrics

Songwriters: Charlie Peacock, Sara Groves

In the girl there's a room
In the room there's a table
On the table there's a candle
and it won't burn out

In the woman there's a song
in the song there is hope
in the hope revolution

In the boy there's a voice
in the voice there's a calling
In the call there's a promise
and it won't quiet down

In the man there's vision
In the vision is a road
It's the road to his freedom...

Tell me what you know
About God and the world and the human soul
How so much can go wrong
and still there are songs

In the man is a work
and the work is his future
and the future is his children
and he won't slow down

In the woman there's a faith
in the faith there's a prayer
in the prayer there's a promise...

In the boy is a dream
in the dream he is standing
and he stands without falling
and he won't back down

In the woman there’s a picture
In the picture there’s a girl
In the girl there’s a room

Tell me what you know
About God and the world and the human soul
How so much can be wrong
and still there are songs

In their hearts and souls
an unstoppable refrain
Hope stands in defiance

Say A Prayer

Sara Groves Song Lyrics

Childhood runs across the meadow, taken in the night
Told that you'll be working in the city for a while

Staring from the windows
Leaning in the door
Flickering like a candle lying on the floor

Say a prayer, say a prayer in the night
Say a prayer, say a prayer in the night

Childhood working with your papa
Chained to you mom
This is all you live for
Debts that linger on

Bearing all the glory
Bearing all the weight
Knowledge of such hardship
At such a tender age

Say a prayer, say a prayer in the night
Say a prayer, say a prayer in the night

Love Is Still A Worthy Cause

Sara Groves Song Lyrics

Have you listed all the times you've tried
Do you call on all your alibis
When somebody asks the question why are you hiding

Did you feel the pull, did you hear a call
Did you take a chance and lose it all
Do you fear there's no collateral left for trying

Friend I know your heart is raw
But love is still a worthy cause
Picking up and pressing on
Oh love is still a worthy cause
It's the touch that starts the thaw
Love is still a worthy cause
Or the word that breaks the pause
Love

It's the beauty in the tales we tell
It's the pushing through and ending well
And finding strength to give ourselves away

In the midst of passing bravery
In the face of our own injury
It's the constant generosity of grace

Friend I know your heart is raw
But love is still a worthy cause
Picking up and pressing on
Oh love is still a worthy cause
It's the touch that starts the thaw
Love is still a worthy cause
Or the word that breaks the pause
Love

I love because he loved me
When I had nothing
I love because he loved me
When I had nothing
I love because he loved me
When I had nothing

When The Saints

Sara Groves Song Lyrics

Lord I have a heavy burden of all I've seen and know
It's more than I can handle
But your word is burning like a fire shut up in my bones
and I can't let it go

And when I'm weary and overwrought
with so many battles left unfought
I think of Paul and Silas in the prison yard
I hear their song of freedom rising to the stars

And when the Saints go marching in
I want to be one of them

Lord it's all that I can't carry and cannot leave behind
It all can overwhelm me
But when I think of all who've gone before and lived a faithful life
Their courage compels me

And when I'm weary and overwrought
with so many battles left unfought
I think of Paul and Silas in the prison yard
I hear their song of freedom rising to the stars

I see the shepherd Moses in the Pharaoh's court
I hear his call for freedom for the people of the Lord

And when the Saints go marching in
I want to be one of them
And when the Saints go marching in
I want to be one of them

I see the long quiet walk along the Underground Railroad
I see the slave awakening to the value of her soul

I see the young missionary and the angry spear
I see his family returning with no trace of fear

I see the long hard shadows of Calcutta nights
I see the sisters standing by the dying man's side

I see the young girl huddled on the brothel floor
I see the man with a passion come kicking down that door

I see the man of sorrow and his long troubled road
I see the world on his shoulders and my easy load

And when the Saints go marching in
I want to be one of them
And when the Saints go marching in
I want to be one of them
I want to be one of them
I want to be one of them
I want to be one of them

Honesty

Sara Groves Song Lyrics

Here in the stillness
Where thoughts are born
Here in our frailty we're tattered and torn
Tattered and torn

Here in confession
Here in our mess
Here in the places we're mostly undressed
Mostly

Oh honesty
Oh honestly
The truth be told
For the saving of our souls

Here in the corner
Where we craft our pain
Here in the open we're laying our blame
Laying our blame

Here in the hallway
Here behind doors
Here in the places we wage our private wars
Wage our private wars

Only the truth and truthfulness can save us now
Only the truth and truthfulness can save us
Only the truth and truthfulness can save us
Can save us now

Abstraction

Sara Groves Song Lyrics

The girl looks out from the window of the airplane
20,000 feet up in the sky
She picks a rooftop in the middle of the town
And wonders what is happening inside

The tv in the kitchen flashes faces
The woman slowly pushes in the chairs
Her neighbors son is fighting in the army
She's concentrating to remember where

Who can know the pain the joy the regret the satisfaction
Who can know the love of one life, one heart, one soul
At two you're at abstraction

The man is waiting for the bus into the city
He's grabs a drink slowly reads the Times
His heart is captured by a story of a child
Around the world but always on his mind

Who can know the pain the joy the regret the satisfaction
Who can know the love of one life, one heart, one soul
At two you're at abstraction

A million this a million that
Mass sums of individuals
A million here
A million there
Made up of a million souls

I Saw What I Saw

Sara Groves Song Lyrics

I saw what I saw and I can't forget it
I heard what I heard and I can't go back
I know what I know and I can't deny it

Something on the road, cut me to the soul

Your pain has changed me
your dream inspires
your face a memory
your hope a fire
your courage asks me what I'm afraid of
(what I am made of)
and what I know of love

we've done what we've done and we can't erase it
we are what we are and it's more than enough
we have what we have but it's no substitution

Something on the road, touched my very soul

I say what I say with no hesitation
I have what I have and I'm giving it up
I do what I do with deep conviction

Something on the road, cut me to the soul

Your pain has changed me
your dream inspires
your face a memory
your hope a fire
your courage asks me what I'm afraid of
(what I am made of)
and what I know of love
and what I know of God

It Might Be Hope

Sara Groves Song Lyrics

You do your work the best that you can
You put one foot in front of the other
Life comes in waves and makes it's demands
You hold on as well as your able

You've been here for a long long time

Hope has a way of turning it's face to you
Just when you least expect it
You walk in a room
You look out a window
And something there leaves you breathless
You say to yourself
It's been a while since I felt this
But it feels like it might be hope

It's hard to recall what blew out the flame
It's been dark since you can remember
You talk it all through to find it a name
As days go on by without number

You've been here for a long long time

Hope has a way of turning it's face to you
Just when you least expect it
You walk in a room
You look out a window
And something there leaves you breathless
You say to yourself
It's been a while since I felt this
But it feels like it might be hope

The Long Defeat

Sara Groves Song Lyrics

I have joined the long defeat
That falling set in motion
And all my strength and energy
Are raindrops in the ocean

So conditioned for the win
To share in victor's stories
But in the place of ambition's din
I have heard of other glories

And I pray for an idea
And a way I cannot see
It's too heavy to carry
And impossible to leave

I can't just fight when I think I'll win
That's the end of all belief
And nothing has provoked it more
Than a possible defeat

We walk a while we sit and rest
We lay it on the altar
I won't pretend to know what's next
But what I have I've offered

And I pray for a vision
And a way I cannot see
It's too heavy to carry
And impossible to leave

And I pray for inspiration
And a way I cannot see
It's too heavy to carry
And impossible to leave
It's too heavy to carry
And I will never leave

You Are Wonderful

Sara Groves Song Lyrics

Songwriters: Gordon Scott Kennedy, Sara Groves

I have been talking to you since I was a little girl
So many sweet memories of giving you my world

You are wonderful
A friend to the weary
You have been so faithful
Your goodness it follows me
You are beautiful
Your love is never ending

I was just wondering today how over all these years
You've carried so many cares
Calmed so many fears

My savior my friend
All these years we've been walking
You are wonderful

It’s True

Sara Groves Song Lyrics

In your heart you know it's true
Though you hold no expectation
In the deepest part of you
There's an open hesitation

But it's true, kingdoms and crowns
A God who came down to find you
It's true angels on high
Sing through the night, Alleluia

Heard it told you, think it's odd
The whole thing fraught with complication
The play begins with Baby God
And all His blessed implications

But it's true, kingdoms and crowns
A God who came down to find you
It's true angels on high
Sing through the night, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia

But it's true, kingdoms and crowns
A God who came down to find you
It's true angels on high
Sing through the night, Alleluia

But it's true, kingdoms and crowns
A God who came down to find you
It's true, oh, angels on high
Sing through the night, Alleluia

In your heart you know it's true
In the deepest part of you
It's true, it's true

To Be With You

Sara Groves Song Lyrics

Songwriters: Ben Shive, Andy Gullahorn, Sara Groves

We come in from our travels
Lay our gifts beneath the tree
My mother's in the kitchen
The parade is on TV

My father's with his father
They're setting out some toys
The kids all want the train he's had
Since he was a boy

To be with You, to be with You
I love this time of year
It always brings me here
To be with You

I fall in with my sisters
Just like when we were young
My grandma holds the baby
She rocks and softly hums

We gather round the table
We close our eyes and sing
Praise God from whom all blessings flow

To be with You, to be with You
I love this time of year
It always brings me here
To be with You

Praise God from whom all blessings flow

We set our milk and cookies
The kids are quick to bed
They know St. Nick is coming
And nothing need be said

We gather by the fire
Reminiscing by its light
The kids will be up early
But it's hard to say goodnight

To be with You, to be with You
I love this time of year
It always brings me here

To be with You, to be with You
I love this time of year
It always brings me here
To be with You

Toy Packaging

Sara Groves Song Lyrics

Songwriters: Ben Shive, Sara Groves

Nothing makes me lose my cool like
Toy packaging
Ask the kids to leave the room for
Toy packaging

I have no choice the money's spent
I've worked for hours to make a dent
I guess it's anger management
Toy packaging

Nothing makes me lose my cool like
Toy packaging
Ask the kids, please, leave the room
It's time for toy packaging

I'm drawing up a paddle plan
To extricate this Robot man
My self-esteem is in the can
Toy packaging

In the old days you could hold a box and shake it
Hear the pieces rattling around
My eyes tear up at these grommets, tape and twisty ties
Remembering that beautiful sound

Toy packaging
I love toy packaging

Nothing makes me lose my cool like
Toy packaging
Kids, you really need to leave the room
Mom's opening toy packaging

I'm sorry you have to see this sight
You must be brave, no, please don't cry
I promise it will be alright
I hope to have it by tonight
Never mind this dynamite
Toy packaging

Peace Peace

Sara Groves Song Lyrics

Songwriters: Sara Groves, Aaron Fabbrini, Ben Gowell

Peace, peace, it's hard to find
Trouble comes like wrecking ball
To your peace of mind
And all that worry you can't leave behind you

All your hopes and fears
All your hopes and fears, oh
All your hopes and fears
Are met in Him tonight

Peace, peace, it's hard to find
Doubt comes like a tiny voice that's so unkind
And all your fears
They conspire to unwind you

And all your hopes and fears
All your hopes and fears, oh
All your hopes and fears
Are met in Him

And in your dark street shines
An everlasting light
And all your hopes and fears
Are met in Him tonight

And all your hopes and fears
All your hopes and fears, oh
All your hopes and fears
Are met in Him tonight

Peace, peace
Peace, peace
Peace, peace

O Come O Come Emmanuel

Sara Groves Song Lyrics

O come, O come, Emmanuel
And ransom captive Israel
That mourns in lonely exile here
Until the Son of God appear

O come, Thou Wisdom from on high
And order all things, far and nigh
To us the path of knowledge show
And cause us in her ways to go

Rejoice, rejoice, Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel
Rejoice, rejoice, Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel

O come desire of nations, bind
All peoples in one heart and mind
Bid envy, strife, and quarrels cease
And be Yourself our King of Peace

Rejoice, rejoice, Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel
Rejoice, rejoice, Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel

Rejoice, rejoice, Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel
Rejoice, rejoice, Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel

Angels From The Realms Of Glory

Sara Groves Song Lyrics

Angels, from the realms of glory
Wing your flight o'er all the earth
Ye who sang creation's story
Now proclaim Messiah's birth

Come and worship, come and worship
Worship Christ, the newborn King

Shepherds, in the fields abiding
Watching o'er your flocks by night
God with man is now residing
Yonder shines the infant light

Come and worship, come and worship
Worship Christ, the newborn King
Come and worship, come and worship
Worship Christ, the newborn King

Sages, leave your contemplations
Brighter visions beam afar
Seek the great Desire of nations
You have seen his guiding star

Come and worship, come and worship
Worship Christ, the newborn King
Come, come and worship
Come, come and worship
Come, come and worship
Worship Christ, the newborn King

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

Sara Groves Song Lyrics

Songwriters: Public Domain, Sara Groves

God rest ye merry gentlemen
Let nothing you dismay
Remember Christ our Savior
Was born on Christmas Day
To save us all from Satan's power
When we were gone astray

Oh tidings, oh tidings
Oh tidings of comfort and joy

From God, our Heavenly Father
A blessed angel came
And unto certain shepherds
Brought tidings of the same
How that in Bethlehem was born
The Son of God by Name

Oh tidings, oh tidings
Oh tidings of comfort and joy

Hear the angels' chorus
Telling us that
God is for us

Now, with true love and brotherhood
Each other now embrace

Oh tidings, oh tidings
Oh tidings, oh tidings
Oh tidings of comfort and joy

Come Thou Long Expected Jesus

Sara Groves Song Lyrics

Songwriters: Traditional, Andy Green

Come, Thou long expected Jesus
Born to set Thy people free
From our fears and sins release us
Let us find our rest in Thee
Israel's strength and consolation
Hope of all the earth Thou art
Dear desire of every nation
Joy of every longing heart

Born Thy people to deliver
Born a child and yet a king
Born to reign in us forever
Now Thy gracious kingdom bring
By Thine own eternal spirit
Rule in all our hearts alone
By Thine all sufficient merit
Raise us to Thy glorious throne

Come, Thou long expected king
Fill our heart with gladness
Come, Thou long expected king
Fill our heart with gladness

Israel's strength and consolation
Hope of all the earth Thou art
Dear desire of every nation
Joy of every longing heart

Dear desire of every nation
Joy of every longing heart

We Wait

Sara Groves Song Lyrics

We wait for a story
A stillness a candle, a light
We wait for forgiveness
A sense of direction, a sign

We wait for You
This month of endless night
Prepare You room
For making all things right
We wait

We wait for a break in the weather
The traffic, a line
We wait for the light of the morning
A truce in the fight

We wait for You
This month of endless night
Prepare You room
For making all things right
We wait

We wait for You
This month of endless night
Prepare You room
Cathedrals made in time

We wait for peace
And goodwill to all men
We wait to see
The waiting is not vain
We wait

We wait
For You