With You Are More, Contemporary Christian rock band Tenth Avenue North can’t seem to do any wrong. Its debut CD, Over and Underneath, yielded three #1 CCM AC singles, namely By Your Side, Hold My Heart, and Love is Here, one of 2009’s biggest singles. Its second CD, The Light Meets the Dark, birthed Healing Begins, another #1 single. One of CCM’s most respected new artists, Tenth Avenue North almost literally had me drooling in anticipation of its next single.
Tenth Avenue North doesn’t disappoint with You Are More. Listening to lead singer Mike Donehey tell the story of Tenth Avenue North’s You Are More in the video below, I couldn’t help but be struck by 1) the humility of the man as he tells the story of how he and the band take in the immensity of their success; and 2) how easily and gratefully he pointed all glory back to God. You Are More was written in the context of having a song that united everyone in the knowledge they can seek refuge in the embrace of a loving God, but, to steal the song’s bottom line, You Are More is more than that.
Listen to Tenth Avenue North’s You Are More and see how beautifully the band encourages the listener to look beyond his or her circumstances and dwell in the shadow of Someone much greater, Who loves them with an everlasting love. You Are More is the most added track at Christian AC radio this week, and I predict an easy Top 5 finish for You Are More at the worst-case scenario. Do you agree?
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YOU ARE MORE Lyrics
Tenth Avenue North
There’s a girl in the corner
With tear stains on her eyes
From the places she’s wandered
And the shame she can’t hide
She says, “How did I get here?
I’m not who I once was.
And I’m crippled by the fear
That I’ve fallen too far to love”
But don’t you know who you are,
What’s been done for you?
Yeah don’t you know who you are?
You are more than the choices that you’ve made,
You are more than the sum of your past mistakes,
You are more than the problems you create,
You’ve been remade
Well she tries to believe it
That she’s been given new life
But she can’t shake the feeling
That it’s not true tonight
She knows all the answers
And she’s rehearsed all the lines
And so she’ll try to do better
But then she’s too weak to try
But don’t you know who you are?
You are more than the choices that you’ve made,
You are more than the sum of your past mistakes,
You are more than the problems you create,
You’ve been remade
You are more than the choices that you’ve made,
You are more than the sum of your past mistakes,
You are more than the problems you create,
You’ve been remade
‘Cause this is not about what you’ve done,
But what’s been done for you.
This is not about where you’ve been,
But where your brokenness brings you to
This is not about what you feel,
But what He felt to forgive you,
And what He felt to make you loved.
You are more than the choices that you’ve made,
You are more than the sum of your past mistakes,
You are more than the problems you create,
You’ve been remade
You are more than the choices that you’ve made,
You are more than the sum of your past mistakes,
You are more than the problems you create,
You’ve been remad.
You’ve been remade
You’ve been remade
You’ve been remade
You’ve been remade
