Brought up in the church against your will

Forced to sit through sermons and be still

Making trouble for the Sunday School teacher

Running through the pews

Just a child then

You were wide-eyed and confused

Screaming on the bus with all the youth

More concerned with dating than with truth

Too cool to join the choir, too smart to go to school

Church was boring

And the scriptures, just more rules



chorus:

But all through the years

Your eyes and ears

Saw just enough of Christ among the people here

To know that you could trust

To know that you were loved

Until there came the day

Your heart could finally say (pray)

I want to go where You are going, Lord

I want to be among Your people where You are

I cannot live my life alone

I don't know how

But You would not bring me this far to leave me now



Finally off to college for the fall

Fifty different lifestyles down one hall

Your professors question everything

Your roommates test your faith

And easy answers seem so out of place



Running from the chapel with your spouse

And making monthy payments on the house

You were living for your children

And they up and moved away

Your friends seem older

And worry fills your days



(Repeat Chorus)



You would not bring me this far to leave me now