Album: Pieces of a Real Heart (2010)

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• I look around and see my wonderful life
  Almost perfect from the outside
  In picture frames I see my beautiful wife
  Always smiling
  But on the inside, I can hear her saying
  
  "Lead me with strong hands
  Stand up when I can't
  Don't leave me hungry for love
  Chasing dreams, what about us?
  
  Show me you're willing to fight
  That I'm still the love of your life
  I know we call this our home
  But I still feel alone."
  
  I see their faces, look in their innocent eyes
  They're just children from the outside
  I'm working hard, I tell myself they'll be fine
  They're independent
  But on the inside, I can hear them saying
  
  "Lead me with strong hands
  Stand up when I can't
  Don't leave me hungry for love
  Chasing dreams, what about us?
  
  Show me you're willing to fight
  That I'm still the love of your life
  I know we call this our home
  But I still feel alone."
  
  So Father, give me the strength
  To be everything I am called to be
  Oh, Father, show me the way
  To lead them
  Won't you lead me?
  
  To lead them with strong hands
  To stand up when they can't
  Don't want to leave them hungry for love
  Chasing things that I could give up
  
  I'll show them I'm willing to fight
  And give them the best of my life
  So we can call this our home
  Lead me, 'cause I can't do this alone
  
  Father, lead me, 'cause I can't do this alone Writer/s: Chris Rohman, Jason Ingram, Matt Hammitt
  Publisher: Capitol CMG Publishing, ESSENTIAL MUSIC PUBLISHING, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Spirit Music Group
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 4

• Emily from SydneyThank you very much for composing such a beautiful and yet a nowadays song for many! This is the song going back ten years ago when my three children were in primary years. My husband was working overseas left me and the three kids behind on and off for a few years. One morning, after I dropped my kids to school driving on my way home this song came out from one of the local Christian radio station and I can’t find any song closer to my own situation and every time when I hear this song I cry. I cry because I’m so touched by Gods grace and mercy. He has delivered us for many trials including our marriage and challenges of our kids from teenagers into young adults. How can we live a life without God who’s full of wisdom, mercy & grace. Jesus is our rock, my role model and I can imply God’s teaching in every struggle of my life and get peace from His words and the path He has for me and my family. Thanks to our Lord, you’re the creator of all things including this beautiful song and I call it (was) my song. With Love
• Christopher from LusakaI like this guy
• Howard Clark from Lexington , ScI've heard the song "Lead Me" and found that I wasn't that man the song tells about to the wife I was married to 2 years ago. Or to my kids from the women whom I was marred to in 1984 and who is the mother of my kids. The song has great meaning to it. I want to thank the band and all who put the song together. I hope that if God's got a wife out there some where I will be that men of God to her. And I hope to make up or try and be the father to my kids who all thought they are adults in their 20's. Thank you for your music and may God bless you all for what you are doing with the music.
• Melanie from Daleville, VaWow. I wish every man heard their wives as you did. I think it's everyone's song; it's the cry of our hearts.
  
  Thank you!!!

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