How Amazing
from Live at the Manor by the lilies & sparrows
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I wrote this song when I was praying for Jesus to make the cross unbelievably real to me. He did.
lyrics
Amazing grace, how sweet is your sound?
Amazing grace, a wretch like me?
I’m as blind as a bat and as bloodthirsty too
I want things that I don’t have
and do the things that I do so I can get them too
I killed you on the cross
I speared you, and water trickled down
Im honest, I didn’t cry.
No not one tear fell from my eyes
Im sorry but I didn’t see you die.
But still I tore the flesh from your side.
Amazing grace are you that amazing?
Are you that amazing?
You opened up my eyes
I felt the blood sprinkle down from the sky.
I didn’t want to see, but I couldn’t look away,
You weren’t a man, you were sin, and you paid it’s debt that day.
My eyes, my eyes, were coals burning inside my brain.
And fire consumed all the doubt I’d built up
And then grace snuffed it out like a rain.
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me
I once was lost but now im found
I was as blind as a bat but now I can see.
You loved me, when I didn’t mean it.
You sought me, when eyes were closed.
And you love me, just as I am
And you know me, just as I am,
A man
All praise and honor, be to you my holy father.
All praise and glory be to God.
This all is yours, and it always has been, and it always will be.
Amazing grace, a wretch like me?
I’m as blind as a bat and as bloodthirsty too
I want things that I don’t have
and do the things that I do so I can get them too
I killed you on the cross
I speared you, and water trickled down
Im honest, I didn’t cry.
No not one tear fell from my eyes
Im sorry but I didn’t see you die.
But still I tore the flesh from your side.
Amazing grace are you that amazing?
Are you that amazing?
You opened up my eyes
I felt the blood sprinkle down from the sky.
I didn’t want to see, but I couldn’t look away,
You weren’t a man, you were sin, and you paid it’s debt that day.
My eyes, my eyes, were coals burning inside my brain.
And fire consumed all the doubt I’d built up
And then grace snuffed it out like a rain.
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me
I once was lost but now im found
I was as blind as a bat but now I can see.
You loved me, when I didn’t mean it.
You sought me, when eyes were closed.
And you love me, just as I am
And you know me, just as I am,
A man
All praise and honor, be to you my holy father.
All praise and glory be to God.
This all is yours, and it always has been, and it always will be.
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from Live at the Manor,
released September 21, 2009
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the lilies & sparrows Greer, South Carolina
the lilies and sparrows originated from Ben Patat's acoustic writings while on and off of tour with the band Divide the Sea. The songs are our way of praising God for what he has done for us. He is worthy of all of our praise for the sole reason that He created us, not to mention that He sent His son to die for our sins so that we may be considered righteous through faith. ... more
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