BECAUSE HE LIVES Writer Bill Gaither God Sent His Son, They Called Him Jesus; He Came To Love, Heal And Forgive. He Lived And Died To Buy My Pardon;
If this is the life you crave honky tonks night and day Well I guess I have to learn to like it too I'll try hard to be like you I wanna do the same you
Here I sit alone and broken hearted walk the floor all night since we parted I'll get over you I don't know how or when it'll take awhile hold by can'
Remember when I saw you standing slightly cryin' empty-handed With no one that you could call your own Looking up to someone somewhere asking for life
Ah, because the world is round, it turns me on Because the world is round, ah Because the wind is high, it blows my mind Because the wind is high, ah
Ah, because the world is round It turns me on Because the world is round Ah, because the wind is high It blows my mind Because the wind is high Ah,
You love me because you're frightened And I'm falling in love with you Because I'm getting frightened Of the things you somehow make me do You love me
God sent His son and they called Him Jesus He came to love, heal and forgive He lived and He died to buy my pardon An empty grave is there to prove my
I'm alone because I love you Love you with all my heart Oh, I'm alone because I had to be true Sorry, I can't say the same about you Yesterday's kisses
If I got down on my knees and I pleaded with you If I crossed a million oceans just to be with you Would you ever, let me down? If I climbed the highest
For a little while we know what heartache is And we feel the pain the world can sometimes bring For a little while we cry in the night without a single
Once in awhile will you try To give one little thought to me? Though someone else May be nearer to your heart Will you dream of the moments I shared
I've been trying to make you love me But everything I try just takes you further from me You don't love me no, no, so you treat me cruel But no matter
Take me now, baby here as I am Hold me close try and understand The sirens' hunger is the fire I breathe Love is the banquet on which we feed Come
I fell in love with another man's woman Another man's woman's got a hold on me I'm on my knees, I cannot see She came out of the sun just like a deity
I only wanted to be closer to you I thought I had something to prove Instead I fled with my superstition Because you are a woman Now I was a poet since
Because, you come to me with naught save love And hold my hand and lift mine eyes above A wider world of hope and joy I see Because you come to me Because