The Better Way

Another song I wrote a while back....

A BETTER WAY       

 

I just don’t think I’ll ever be good enough

And it feels like I can never do anything right

I try and try, but I always seem to mess up

Sometimes it takes all I have just to stay alive

 

I’m spinning round and round and just don’t think I can stop

Barely staying afloat, and my arms are about to drop

 

I do what I can just to make it through the day

You know, the less I have to feel, the better for me

But when the numbness finally goes away

I’m left empty and alone and afraid

 

I’m falling fast, and I just don’t care

I’m always going, but not going anywhere

 

There must be a better way

Must be more than living just  to die

From this pain can I be saved?

There must be more to this life

I just don’t think I can face another day

There must be a better way

 

There is no one on whom I can depend

Everyone I know just lets me down

Oh, sure they all say that they’re my friends

But when it really counts, no one’s around

 

At the end of the day, I’m always all alone

Tell me is this the only life I’ll ever know?

 

There must be a better way

Must be more than living just to die

From this pain can I be saved?

There must be more to this life

I just don’t think I can face another day

There must be a better way

 

And when I’d finally had enough

I fell down to my knees
I said, God, are you there?
And he gently said to me:

Child I created you my own

Made in my image long ago
And you were never meant to go through life alone
I came to live and die so you would know
That I love you and I always will
And even when you fall I love you still

But, yes, there is a better way

You can have peace in your life
And from this pain you can be saved
I’ll wipe every tear from your eye.
Open your heart, surrender to me today.
I’ll show you the better way.

I have found a better way
Jesus came and gave me a new life
And all my sins He washed away
As long as I’m with Him I’ll never die
And together with my Lord I face each day
Oh, in Jesus I have found the better way

 cgh 2006