You raise up nations and throw down kings,
For the glory of your name.
We are dust and you are god.
We fade away but you remain.

(chorus)
You are exalted, hallelujah, hallelujah.
You are the mighty one, hallelujah, hallelujah
(alt word to mighty: sovereign, three in, holy, righteous, etc)

v.2
You command the winds and the storms,
Snow and rain, fire and hail.
You know the creatures that swim in the deep.
You own the cattle on the hills.

You decreed these things to be.
And your Word won’t pass away.
So young and old, woman and man,
Let us praise his name.

words and music marc heinrich
©2004 further up & further in music

(chorus)
I need time, before it slips away,
I need time, to learn how to love,
I need time, to make it all okay
There’s so much left to say… I need time (after v3. but there’s no time).

v.2
My wife was nineteen, when I first saw her,
A laughing treasure that I found among my friends.
Now fifteen years are gone and it seems I’ve barely loved her,
Can she forgive me, forgive me once again?

v.3
My dad was sixty-three when cancer took him.
In those last years we’d become friends.
The week he died, he looked me in the eye,
And without speaking said “my life here’s at an end”.

(musical bridge)

v.4
My boy is three now, and he tells me about Jesus,
And things he learned from mom and Sunday school.
I hold his tiny hand and stare up at the blue sky,
And I thank God for teaching this fool…

Now’s the time, before it slips away,
Now’s the time, to learn how to love,
Now’s the time, to make it all okay
Say what you have to say…
Pray what you need to pray… now’s the time.

words and music marc heinrich
©2004 further up & further in music

v.1
Is this the babe I carried?
Is this the boy who played?
Is this the man who raised the dead?
Still in my arms he lay.

v.2
Lord you did give this son to me.
Now why do you take him away?
It cuts like a cold blade through my soul,
And now in the grave he lay.

(chorus)
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be your name
Lord you give and take away
Blessed be your name
Allelu, allelujah
Lord you give and take away
Blessed be your name

v.3
Is this the son I buried,
Holding me close today?
Is this Messiah who conquers death?
Safe in his arms I will stay.
Safe in his arms I will stay.

words and music marc heinrich
©2004 further up & further in music

(chorus)
Glorious, morning light is upon us.
Our fear and doubt have fled with the dawn.
Jesus Christ is risen, indeed!
For Messiah is God’s own son.

v.2
On the road to Emmaus we were met by a stranger.
And he spoke from the scriptures with wisdom and might.
As he taught us we realized that this was the master,
As if we had been blind and he’d given us sight.

v.3
Once this heart, like a tomb, was stone cold and empty.
Only sin, doubt and darkness would venture inside.
‘Til that wonderful moment he entered like daybreak,
Turned dead stone into flesh and filled me with life.

(after last verse chorus)
Glorious, morning light is within me.
My fear and doubt have fled with the dawn.
Jesus Christ is risen, indeed!
For Messiah is God’s own son.

words & music by marc heinrich
©2004 further up & further in music

And as He gazed upon the ones who should have died,
His lips formed the word “forgive”.
And then I feared, as the spear pierced His side,
This man had died that I might live.

v.2
One stone, one legion, the gates of hell,
Could not keep Jesus in the tomb.
He came back to His followers,
He met us in the upper room.

And as He gazed upon the ones who thought He died
I wept and fell upon my knees
And as I saw and touched His hands His feet His side
I heard Him speak the word “believe”

words & music by marc heinrich
©2004 further up & further in music