It happened perchance, he met her one day
With a passing glance, she cast a smile his way
An instant attraction, he could not deny
Inside his emotions, he'd either fight or fly.
Their proximity once reduced
A conversation thus induced
The melding already begun
The impulse to turn and run
Second thought, third thought
Was he free, or had he been caught?
A matter of time, and then he would know:
Holding her tight, "I'll never let go
Holding you tight, I'll never let you go."
Do you have what you wanted?, she happened to ask
But I find I am simply not up to the task
Of being the man that I need to be
And now she tells me she wants to be free.
But my darling, my love, what you fail to see
Is that you, my friend, are the one who caught me
And above all the noise, the one thing I know, is
Holding you tight, I will never let go.
For your troubled past, I cannot erase
But is there no freedom within my embrace?
Must I accede to some external force,
Submitting my love to some natural course
Of events over which I have no control?
The voices say yes, but my heart tells me, No!
And holding you tight, I shall not let go
Holding you tight, I will never let go.
But now I am finding occasion to pause, and
Consider the pain that I know I have caused
To others who've loved me throughout my life
I'm sure there are more than only my wife.
Particularly the One whom I met—I was young—
Who harnessed my shoulders and bridled my tongue.
I now know His purpose was to form within me
The kind of a man that I now need to be
But I shunned His advances, ignoring His plea.
In selfish ambition, chose instead to be "free."
And today I see clearly that I cannot undo
The damaging wake of the path I pursued
But I've found a man willing to pay off my debt.
He is the One—when I was young—whom I'd met.
My troubled past, He'll one day erase.
And I'll only find freedom within His embrace.
For shall God accede to some worldly force,
Submitting His love to some natural course
Of events which I like to think I control?
My mind might think yes, but His Spirit shouts, No!
And holding me tight, He'll never let go
Holding us tight, He will never let us go.
Our troubled past, He'll one day erase
And we shall find freedom within His embrace.
Shall God accede to some worldly force,
Submitting His love to some natural course
Of events which we like to think we control?
Our minds might think yes, but His Spirit shouts, No!
So holding Him tight, Let us never let go.
When He comes in His glory, with Him let us go!
For holding Him tight, We'll never let go, because
Holding us tight, He will never let us go.