lead me: alone and enough

another bike ride, another God moment.

here's what you need to understand: i love crazy music when i go for my adventures.  a run, bike ride, etc, i love to have a lil' old school music, usually some n'sync, maybe some brit spears or BB, s'all good.  i want somethin' that gets me motivated and movin.  out of date? yes. fun and jammin? also yes :)

this week, i switched to a new pandora station, a lil' too many slow jams for my trying-so-hard-to-get-back-into-exercising tastes, so i tried to change it.  my phone sucks, it just is what it is. but it never freezes when picking out some sweet tunes, it just doesn't.  but last night, on my super awesome bike ride (rockin' Obbs yo!), my phone totally and completely froze, unable to switch the station, dislike song or pause.  and it froze playing "Lead Me" by Sanctus Real.  nothing wrong with this musssaaaac, but it's not my typical "let's get this bike movin'" music, and i really tried to switch it.  like f'reals.  i stopped my bike, started and re-started good ol' pando, but no luck, kept replaying like it was a remix (thank you 2000's music and the remix versions that i can't help but jam to).

i'm not gonna go on a tangent about how awesome this song is, or how it touched my heart, or even how much i think some of my friends (especially married) needed to hear this, b/c let's be honest, these things only  really bring you to tears when you hear them, exactly when and how you need to hear them... and i don't like to feign the whole "you NEED to hear this, it's amazing" moments and i'm not the "post those lyrics" type of girl.

but.

i am gonna post these lyrics anyway :) cuz i do think they are awesome.  and you just might need to read/hear 'em right now.  and if not?  well, that's okay too, you can just ignore this blog entry... and that's okay too :)

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Lead Me lyrics
Songwriters: Matthew Hammitt;Jason Ingram;Christopher James Rohman

I look around and see my wonderful life
Almost perfect from the outside
In picture frames, I see my beautiful wife
Always smiling, but on the inside

Oh, I can hear her saying

Lead me with strong hands
Stand up when I can't
Don't leave me hungry for love
Chasing dreams, but what about us?

Show me you're willing to fight
That I'm still the love of your life
I know we call this our home
But I still feel alone

I see their faces, look in their innocent eyes
They're just children from the outside
I'm working hard, I tell myself they'll be fine
They're independent, but on the inside

Oh, I can hear them saying

[| From: http://www.elyrics.net/read/s/sanctus-real-lyrics/lead-me-lyrics.html |]
Lead me with strong hands
Stand up when I can't
Don't leave me hungry for love
Chasing dreams, what about us?

Show me you're willing to fight
That I'm still the love of your life
I know we call this our home
But I still feel alone

So Father, give me the strength
To be everything I'm called to be
Oh Father, show me the way
To lead them

Won't You lead me?

To lead them with strong hands
To stand up when they can't
Don't want to leave them hungry for love
Chasing things that I could give up

I'll show them I'm willing to fight
And give them the best of my life
So we can call this our home
Lead me 'cause I can't do this alone

Father, lead me 'cause I can't do this alone