The Basics of Life
words and music by Mark Harris & Don Koch
from 'The Basics of Life' performed by ~4HIM

We’ve turned the page
For a new day has dawned
We’ve rearranged
What is right and what’s wrong
Somehow we’ve drifted so far from the truth
That we can’t get back home
Where are the virtues
That once gave us light
Where are the morals
That governed our lives
Someday we all will awake
And look back just to find what we’ve lost

(chorus)
We need to get back to the basics of life
A heart that is pure and a love that is blind
A faith that is fervently grounded in Christ
A hope that endures for all times
These are the basics
We need to get back to the basics of life

The newest rage is to reason it out
Just meditate and you can overcome every doubt
After all man is a god, they say God is no longer alive
But I still believe in the old rugged cross
And I still believe there is hope for the lost
And I know he Rock of all Ages will stand
Through the changes of time

(repeat chorus)

(bridge)
We’ve let the darkness invade us too long
We’ve got to turn the tide
Oh and we need the passion that burned long ago
To come and open our eyes
There’s no room for compromise

(repeat chorus)

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