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Be Where You Are
Words and music by Steve Maxon
Just lyrics

Intro:  D2 | C79  (x2)

                   D2
     When I don't know where You're leading
                    C79
     When my wisdom seems so fleeting
                  D2                                                 C79
     And my will begins competing -- with Your ways
                       D2
     Remind me just where You are standing
                         C79
     Outside both time and understanding
                      Em/C#                                              Cm
     And that the one thing You're demanding -- is my all
                             D2
     You know the plans that I devise
                         C79
     You are not fooled by my disguise
                    D2                                               C79
     For surely as the sparks will rise, all men will fall
            D2
     So when You formed the dust into
           C79
     The one who'd take Your breath from You,
           Em/C#
     Was that the moment that You knew
          Am7                                    D2
     My face -- could You see this place?

                 G                            Bm7
               Love -- amazing love -- cast out my fear
                        Am7                    G                                 Em                  D2
               Oh, I know as Your perfection comes, my imperfections disappear        
                               G                                           Bm7
               And I am sure -- if we endure -- we'll reign, on bended knee
                                       Am7                     G                 Em                           D2
               For when we're low, it's then we know -- how great your grace must be
                                    G6  G    D2
               Lord, please lead me
                             Em   D
               Until I'm free
                C2     D2                     C79
               Free to be -- where you are

                       D2
     What does man gain from his labor?
                  C79
     Toil and envy of his neighbor
                   D2                                                   C79
     While his life -- a fleeting vapor -- is here and gone
                            D2
     And while the kings of earth conspire
                C79
     Plot to raise their own names higher
              Em/C#                                         Cm
     All the Lord Himself requires is, "Ask of me."
                D2
     Father God who fashioned pleasure
                      C79
     You give to us as we have measured
                              D2                                                C79
     And know our hearts are with our treasure, here on earth or in the sky
            D2
     For when we in Your sufferings share
            C79
     The Spirit testifies, declares,
                Em/C#
     That the One who called us is prepared
         Am7                                      D2
     To run -- and greet his long lost son


                 G                            Bm7
               Love -- amazing love -- cast out my fear
                        Am7                    G                                 Em                  D2
               Oh, I know as Your perfection comes, my imperfections disappear        
                               G                     Bm7
               And as a child -- we knew -- as children know
                     Am7                             G                          Em                D2
               But now we're grown, and soon we'll know, as we are fully known
                                    G6  G    D2
               Lord, please lead me
                             Em   D  C2
               Until I'm free
                          D2                G
               Free to be -- where
                                           Bm7
               Your amazing love -- casts out my fear
                        Am7                    G                                 Em                  D2
               Oh, I know as Your perfection comes, my imperfections disappear        
                               G                                           Bm7
               And I am sure -- if we endure -- we'll reign, on bended knee
                                       Am7                     G                 Em                           D2
               For when we're low, it's then we know -- how great your grace must be
                                    G6  G    D2
               Lord, please lead me
                             Em                   D  C2
               Until I'm . . . . . . . . free
                          D2                     C79
               Free to be -- where you are
              D2                  C79
               Be where you are
              D2                  C79
               Be where you are
              D2                  C79    D2
               Be where you are

 

Words and music by Steve Maxon
©2001 Steve Maxon; all rights reserved.
Website ©2002 Steve Maxon

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