Michael W. Smith "Project"

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Track Listing

  1. 1.13 - Sonata in D Major
  2. 3.34 - You Need a Saviour
  3. 4.28 - Could He Be the Messiah
  4. 4.25 - Too Many Times
  5. 3.42 - Be Strong and Courageous
  6. 3.23 - Looking Up
  7. 3.41 - The Race Is On
  8. 5.30 - First Light / Love in the Light
  9. 4.16 - Friends
  10. 2.52 - Great Is the Lord
  11. 3.40 - Alpha Overture
Total Time: 41.25

Album Info

Album Copyright: ©1983 & 1987 Reunion Records
Published by: Reunion Records
All Songs Copyright: ©1982 Meadowgreen Music Co. (Admin. by Tree Pub. Co. Inc.) (ASCAP)
Produced by: Michael W. Smith
Executive Producers: Michael Blanton and Dan Harrell
Remixed by: Jack J. Puig
Engineered by: Mike Psanos
Assistant Engineers: Brown Bannister, John Woods, & Michael W. Smith
Recorded at: Tree International Studio
Recorded type: Analog
Mastered at: Woodland Sound Studio
Mastered by: Hank Williams
Mastered type: Digital
Musicians: Vocals: Gary Chapman (Courtesy of lamb & Lion Records), Teresa Ellis, Dave durham, Ron Downey, Kimberly Smith, Diana DeWitt, Jackie Cusic, Gary Pigg, Chris Harris, and Pam Mark Hall
Vocal on "Friends": Amy Grant (Courtesy of Myrrh Records)
Art Direction: Bill Brunt Designs
Photography: Tim Campbell

Sonata in D Major

Music: Michael W. Smith

You Need a Saviour

Words:Deborah D. Smith
Music: Michael W. Smith
Made a friend last night, or you thought you did
Had a drink, had a talk, took a drive
Shared the night, gave up a part of your soul
Now she's gone and you're a little less alive.

Shake it off, never let your feelings begin
But your defenses are down and the fear is closing in.

Chorus:
Yes, you really need a saviour
Somehow you've known it all along
Yes, you really need a saviour
You know you've heard it for so long
Yes, You really need a saviour
Someone to come and lead you on
You need a saviour
You need a saviour
It's time

Told yourself today just for your own sake
What was lost wouldn't cost anyway
Life's a one night stand, this time you'll win
The up and down, life-long game that you play.

Shake it off, never let your feelings begin
But your defenses are down and the fear is closing in.

Chorus


Could He Be the Messiah

Words:Deborah D. Smith
Music: Michael W. Smith
Been here for days, I'm amazed (at) this teacher, carpenter, preacher
Lost in the crowd, I hear him now, he's praying and he's saying, "God feed them all"
Five-thousand men, al of his friends are worried find bread and hurry
Five loaves and fish, what can he wish, he's praying still he's saying, "God feed them all"

Chorus:
Could he be the messiah?
Miracle man, part of the plan
Could he be the messiah?
Life in his hand,
I understand he could be....

Meet for our needs fully he feeds our hunger older and younger
Twelve baskets more, can we ignore, he shows us that he knows us, is he the Christ?
God in his eyes, I realize his power, need of the hour
Jesus is his name, they say he came to feed us and to receive us, is he the Christ?

Chorus

It is he the messiah!
Miracle man, part of the plan
It is he the messiah!
Life in his hand
I understand it is he

Chorus


Too Many Times

Words:Deborah D. Smith
Music: Michael W. Smith
Who do I hope to finally be?
Is it not your life in me?
Yet the how's too hard to see
Too many times

Will I ever finally be
The true intended me?
Will the old in me be freed
And left behind?

Chorus:
Too many times
I'm back inside
Wanting desperately to hide
Yet I know, I know you say
You have to die
Too many times
You hear my cries
I'm at the end of all my tries
So, I'm open Lord, so
Teach me how to die

Here I am again alone
Afraid I'll lose all that I own
Yet you see me as your one
I cannot fall

And what I am I still am not
At times I count the cost
Yet I find there's nothing lost
If I give it all

Chorus


Be Strong and Courageous

Words:Deborah D. Smith
Music: Michael W. Smith
My servant, now your time has come
You have a job to do
I have a people to be led
And a willing heart in you
So I give you strength and courage
And I'll hide you in my hand
For Joshua, you gotta live for your call
Take my people to their land

Chorus:
So be strong and courageous
So be strong and courageous
You know you gotta be strong and courageous
So be strong and courageous

Never should you fear my call
Just listen and obey
Discouragement need never fall
Stand on the words I say
You know I led your fathers here
And you know I'll lead you too
Inscribe my law into your soul
And nothing will touch you.

Chorus


Looking Up

Music: Michael W. Smith

The Race Is On

Words:Deborah D. Smith
Music: Michael W. Smith
Got our feet on a narrow road
Got our eyes on the one who will be our goal
and our brothers at our side

If we stumble we won't fall
If we miss the mark He'll be there after all
With an everlasting prize
The race is on

Chorus:
Cone on and go
Leave behind the sin you find
That slows your time
Come on and go
You know the race is on
Come on and go
Straight ahead be safely led
By him instead
Come on and go
You know the race is on

Lord I try running my own race
Losin' ground, losin' hope
Losin' sight of your face
And I'm ready to retire

Then I'm back on your solid ground
You remind me of the strength
That in you I've found
And you fill me with your fire
The race is on

Chorus


First Light

Music: Michael W. Smith

Love in the Light

Words:Deborah D. Smith
Music: Michael W. Smith
Darkness thick and heavy,
Black and steady screaming darkness
Anyone who hates his brother,
Who plans evil for another
Walks in darkness
Sonlight, warm and shining,
Purifying, welcome Sonlight
Everyone who loves completely
With a heart that opens freely
Walks in Sonlight

Chorus:
Let us love in the light
For love is from God
If we love what is right
We show whose we are
In a world of the dying
We're living our parts
If we love in the light
With all of our hearts

Blindness, terrifying, left for dying, spirit blindness
Anyone who thirsts for evil plots
His very own upheaval
Lost in blindness
New sight, truth unending, faith unbending, new sight
Everyone who seeks the father leaves the world
And all its bother
Sees with new sight

Chorus


Friends

Words:Deborah D. Smith
Music: Michael W. Smith
Packing up the dreams God planted
In the fertile soil of you
Can't believe the hopes He's granted
Means a chapter in your life is through

But we'll keep you close as always
It won't even seem you've gone
'Cause our hearts in big and small ways
Will keep the love that keeps us strong

Chorus:
And friends are friends forever
If the Lord's the Lord of them
And a friend will not say "never"
'Cause the welcome will not end
Though it's hard to let you go
In the Father's hands we know
That a lifetime's not too long to live as friends.

With the faith and love God's given
Springing from the hope we know
We will pray the joy you'll live in
Is the strength that now you show

But we'll keep you close as always
It won't even seem you've gone
'Cause our hearts in big and small ways
Will keep the love that keeps us strong

Chorus


Great Is the Lord

Music: Michael W. Smith
Great is the Lord,
He is holy and just
By His power we trust
In His love
Great is the Lord
He is faithful and true
By His mercy He proves
He is love

Chorus:
Great is the Lord
And worthy of glory
Great is the Lord
And worthy of praise
Great is the Lord
Now lift up your voice
Now lift up your voice
Great is the Lord
Great is the Lord

Great is the Lord,
He is holy and just
By His power we trust
In His love
Great is the Lord
He is faithful, and true
By His mercy He proves
He is love

Chorus

Great are you Lord
And worthy of glory
Great are you Lord
And worthy of praise
Great are you Lord
I lift up my voice
I lift up my voice
Great are you Lord
Great are you Lord


Alpha Overture

Music: Michael W. Smith

Stephen M. Schaefer
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Last Updated: December 26, 1995

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