Real Life Conversations lyrics

Steven Curtis Chapman
Galaians 6:7-8
The T.V. said just make sure you're old enough
And let your feelings tell you when it's right
What went wrong? She thought it was really love
Now she wonders why she just can't sleep at night
Was it worth the price she has to pay
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It's either truth or consequences, there's no other way

"Too many hypocrites", I heard her say

I even saw it in the headlines today

"How can I follow God

When His own people turn away?

Nobody's perfect, but I'd just like to see
Somebody living what they say they believe

They've got all this world needs, like they say

I wonder, why won't they give some away?"

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Can she see God

For who He really is

Sometimes you wanna laugh, sometimes you wanna cry;

You’re just not good enough no matter how hard you try,

So you go on, but do you know something’s wrong.

You meant it when you asked Him in down on your knees;
Somehow you lost the thrill and thrills are what you need,

To let you know where you’re gonna go.

You struggle on trying to earn what He’s given you.

It’s a brand new day and the sun is shining bright;

Looks like it’s gonna be the very best day of my life.

So I jump out of bed into a world of opportunities;

I gotta get movin’, no time to get down on my knees.
Then the telephone rings;

It’s the voice of tragedy.

No I suddenly find

The time to get down on my knees.

CHORUS

You wonder when the Lord will renew the strength within you;

You wonder how, how can He use you as you are.

Seems like you’re wasting precious time,

But then a voice comes to remind you (to wait).

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Wait, wait, wait on the Lord;

You will understand in time.

Why you must wait,

Wait, wait, wait on the Lord;

Yes He hears you,

But for now you must wait on the Lord.

In a world of winners and losers,

Some are userd, some are the users;

It’s a push and shove race

Of trying to get ahead.
In the dust of all the confusion

We make a choice, Truth or illusion;

Will we listen to lies,

Or hear what the Father says.

CHORUS

We are running in a human race,

Where nobody wants to settle for second place;

(Steven Curtis Chapman, Dale Oliver and Dave Mullen)

[Rom 5:17]

Just when I thought I was strong,
Another weak day comes along,
And all my righteousness goes wrong.
But I was doing so well;
My dreams to be a Godly man
Seem out of reach of my own hand,
But where I fall short, His grace still stands,
If I have faith like a child.

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And if Monday's child is fair of face,

Sometimes His eyes were gentle and filled with laughter
And sometimes they cried
Sometimes there was a fire of Holy anger
In Jesus' eyes

But the eyes that saw hope in the hopeless
That saw through the fault to the need
Are the same eyes that look down from heaven
Into the deepest part of you and me

And His eyes are always upon us
His eyes never close in sleep

I can do all things
Through Christ who gives me strength
But sometime I wonder what He can do through me
No great sucess to show
No glory on my own
Yet in my weakness He is there to let me know

His strength is perfect when our strength is gone
He’ll carry us when we can’t carry on
Raised in His power, the weak become strong
His strength is perfect, His strength is perfect

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Well, its my turn now,

Yes, it’s my turn now;

My turn to give my life away.

I close the book and I shake my head;

Sometimes I can’t believe the things I’ve read.

I don’t deserve what He did for me;

He gave His love and His life away,

And now He’s asking me to do the same,

So I’m gonna give Him all I am.,