sunday song

Our favorite singer/songwriter Andrew Peterson released a new album Friday.  Much to our dismay we were not able to go to the release concert due to previous plans but that disappointment can't take anything away from the beauty of these new songs and the way they have already pierced my heart. 

A good writer writes things that touch your heart, a great writer writes things that change your heart.  AP is a great writer whose words hold so much Truth that you can't listen without feeling God speaking to you, into whatever struggle, confusion, or joyous event in your life and softening your heart to His words, His promises, His will.  

Listen, and repeat.  Often.

We Will Survive

Andrew Peterson

Do you remember how we used to drive 

Over the mountain and down to the river bend 

Where the ghosts of the valley all haunt the tracks 

The highway calls your stories back again

Oh, Jamie, I'm all alone out here

And all I used to know is in the wind

And now

I don't recognize a thing

I need a brand new song to sing

So tell me the story I still need to hear

Tell me we're gonna make it out alive again

I need to know there's nothing left to fear

There's nothing left to hide

So will you look me in the eye

And say we will survive

Someday the truth's gonna lay us bare

We're gonna raise a glass to the past and say

It's only when the straight line breaks and heals a little crooked

That you ever see the grace

Well I had to find a better place

Maybe the bend in the river's the only way

And I'm lost

Got all these voices in my head

I need some hope up there instead

So tell me the story I still need to hear

Tell me about the sun that's gonna rise again

I need to know there's nothing left to fear

There's nothing left to hide

So will you look me in the eye

Say we will survive

We will survive

Do you remember how I used to say

Love is a fire and it's gonna burn us up

To make the space for grace to grow

Now it feels like love has called my bluff

So tell me the story I still need to hear

Tell me about the love that never dies

Tell me the story I still need to hear

Tell me we're gonna make it out alive again

I need to know there's nothing left to fear

There's nothing left to hide

So when you look me in the eye

I know we will survive

We will survive

I know we will survive

I know we will survive