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AcaDisc #135- All Around Me by The Vocal Union
Original Release: 2004 The Acappella Company
Available through The Acappella
Company
Executive Producer: Keith Lancaster
Producer: Gary
Miller
Production Assistants: Brian Wiersma, Michael Forehand, and Ryan
Thomas
Engineers: Gary Miller and Michael Forehand
Assistant
Engineers: Brian Wiersma and Tony Brown
Live Sound Engineer: Nathan
Miller
Art Direction: Buddy Jackson for Jackson Design
Design:
Annette Reischl
Album Photography: Thunder Image Group
Recording
Studio: Clifty Studios- Paris, TN
Mixed by: Gary Miller
Mastered by:
Mayfield Mastering
Members: Gary Miller - Bass
Brian Wiersma -
Bass/Baritone
Ryan Thomas -
Bass/Baritone
Tony
Brown - Vocal Percussion/Baritone/2nd
Tenor
Cody
Batten - Tenor
Michael Forehand - 2nd Tenor
Steve Camping - 1st
Tenor
Get Ready
Livin' Love
Thank You
I Wanna Love You
We've Got This Groove
Heaven's Irony
Rise and Walk
Where on Earth
To See Jesus
Do You Believe
This is Love
What Heavenly Music
Words and music: Gary Miller, Brian Wiersma, Michael Forehand
Lead:
Michael Forehand
Sample: Windows
Media
Lyrics:
Opening:
Get ready
Get ready
Get ready
Get ready, get
ready, get ready
No one knows the hour
No one knows the day
When Jesus Christ is
gonna come
And carry us away
We've got to live each moment
As if
it were you're last
Don't worry about the future
Just break free
from your past
Chorus 1:
Get ready (c'mon get ready)
Get ready (get ready, will
you be ready)
Get ready (get ready, c'mon get ready)
Get ready (get
ready)
Satan's mighty tricky
With every single move
You know he's
working overtime
To get his hands on you
Put on God's Holy
Armor
Get ready for the fight
Before the Savior comes
Like a
thief in the night
Chorus 2:
Get ready (He's gonna take us home)
Get ready (never
gonna cry no more)
Get ready (a mansion of gold)
Get ready (and
wings of my own)
Get ready (tomorrow might be the day)
Get ready (or maybe even
tonight)
Get ready (you never know when He's gonna come)
Get ready,
get ready, get ready (don't get left behind, don't get left behind)
Bridge:
He's gonna come (get ready)
He's gonna come (get
ready)
He's gonna come (get ready)
He's gonna come (get
ready)
He's gonna come (get ready, to carry us away)
He's gonna come
(get ready)
He's gonna come (get ready, hope is going to come)
Like
a thief in the night
Repeat Opening
Don't you know that day is coming quickly
Why would you even
wait?
Don't let the sand slip through the glass
Only you can choose
your fate
The only way to victory
Accept His sacrifice
Set aside
your pride
And let Him reign
As the Lord of your life
Chorus 3:
Get ready (c'mon get ready)
Get ready (you've gotta be
ready, for only God knows the hour)
Get ready (and only God knows the
day)
Get ready (when Jesus comes)
Chorus 4:
Get ready (and carries us away)
Get ready (He's gonna
take us higher)
Get ready (yeah, He's gonna take us home, a mansion of
gold)
Get ready (and wings of my own)
Repeat Opening
Scriptural Reference:
"That servant who knows his master's will and does not get ready or does not do what his master wants will be beaten with many blows. But the one who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked." Luke 12:47-48
Words and music: Allen Krehbeil and Brian Wiersma
Lead: Brian
Wiersma
Sample: Windows
Media
Lyrics:
Oh Lord, (I used to wonder why) I used to wonder why you didn't seem as
obvious as you could be (you could be)
And Lord, (then I began) then I
began to understand you called this heart of mine
To keep Your light
(keep your light) shinin' right through me
Because You've given me this
life that I'm unworthy of (I am not worthy of your love)
And even when
I take a fall You hold me out of love for me (you hold me out)
Since my
existence is a gift that I've been given (been given) from above
Chorus:
I'm livin' love (I'm living in love), I'm livin' with Jesus
Christ (this is His Life)
Its only by His grace that I'm forgiven and
free in love (forgiven in love)
I'm livin with in His light
And I
understand this love I'm living because His love is livin' inside of
me
(I often wonder why) I often wonder why I never seem as obvious as I
could be (I could be)
To show (all of the world) all the of world that
You've intended for this child of God (for this child)
To give the same
love that You gave to me
I want everyone to know the love I've come to
know (the love that I have come to know)
And even when my way was lost,
You led me out of emptiness (led me out)
Since Your forgiveness was the
peace that I'd been missin' (been missing) in my soul
Repeat Chorus
Bridge
Oh no, I'm (I'm just a man) just a man
And I
know I don't understand (don't understand)
So I'm placing this life in
Your Almighty Hand (in Your hand)
Oh (It is an honor), I will consider it an honor representing You
eternally
And Lord (I hope that You will understand), I hope that You
will understand that when You call for me (I will try)
I'll try to do
whatever You might need
Lord I want to give You everything for all my
life (all my life)
Even when I start to doubt, I'll hold onto Your
promises (I will hold)
I'll keep on servi'n to make sure my life's a
livin' sacrifice
Repeat Chorus (x2)
(I understand) And I understand this love I'm living because His love is livin' inside of me
Scriptural Reference:
"Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children and live a
life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a
fragrant offering and sacrifice to God." Epehsians 5:1-2
"And so
we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love.
Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him." 1 John 4:16
Words and music: Michael Forehand and Gary Miller
Lead: Gary
Miller and Michael Forehand
Sample: Windows
Media
Lyrics:
In a sacred secret quiet place
I fall down on my face
I am
knowing I'm not worthy of your grace
Lord Your spirit send
And you
enter in
And touch my troubled heart
You're my thoughts to pray and
all my words to say
In a loving precious family time
We kneel before your throne
All
your blessings flowing through our humble home
Lord, we welcome
you
And we plead with you
That you live here day by day
With
one heart, one soul, one voice
We wish to say
Chorus 1:
Thank You Jesus (thank You), for everything You've
done
Thank You Father (thank You), for the glory of your Son
Thank
You Spirit (thank You), for dwelling within me
Making me the man I need
to be (I thank You)
Chorus 2:
Thank You Jesus (thank You), for giving up Your
life
Thank You Father (thank You), for Your holy sacrifice
Thank You
Spirit (thank You), for the work You've done in me
Showing me a life
that sets me free (I thank You)
Bridge:
I wanna say thank You (thank You, thank You, thank You)
I
just wanna say thank You (thank You, thank You, thank You)
On divine and hallowed holy ground
We gather in Your name
At your
table all of Your mercies we proclaim
We adore You and we worship
You
And lift our hearts in praise
Everlastingly, eternally we
say
Repeat Chorus 1
Repeat Chorus 2
Repeat Bridge
I just wanna say thank You Jesus (thank You Jesus)
Thank You Father
(thank You Father), thank You Spirit (thank You Spirit), thank You Lord
(thank you Lord)
Thank You Jesus (thank You Jesus), thank You Father
(thank You Father), thank You Spirit (thank You Spirit), thank You Lord
(thank you Lord)
Thank You Jesus (thank You Jesus), thank You
Father
Scriptural Reference:
"I thank and praise you, O God of my fathers: You have given me wisdom
and power, you have made known to me what we asked of you, you have made
known to us the dream of the king." Daniel 2:23
"And whatever you
do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus,
giving thanks to God the Father through him." Colossians 3:17
Words and music: Gary Miller and Brian Wiersma
Lead: Steve
Camping
Sample: Windows
Media
Lyrics:
I wanna love You regardless if anyone else does
I wanna serve You
even if I'm all alone
Though others forsake You I wanna give you my
faith and trust
Faithfully follow everywhere You go
Repeat Verse 1
Chorus:
You are my sun in the morning
My star in the
night
You're my manna from heaven
You're my fountain of life
You
are my oil, you're my healing
My constant delight
You're my Shepard
protecting me
You are my guiding light
I wanna praise You regardless if anyone else does (I wanna praise
You)
I wanna thank You for the wonderful things You do (I wanna thank
You)
It doesn't matter if I am poor or if I have plenty (It doesn't
matter)
Everything I have give to You (I give to You)
Repeat Chorus
Bridge:
Some people say You're not reality
Some people see just
what they want to see
I see Your power all around me
I feel your
presence deep inside of me
I wanna love You regardless if anyone else does (I wanna love You)
I
wanna serve You even if I'm all alone (I want to trust
You)
Though others forsake You I wanna give you my faith and trust (and
I will follow You)
Faithfully follow everywhere You go
Repeat Chorus (x2)
I wanna love You regardless if anyone else does
I wanna serve You
even if I'm all alone
Scriptural Reference:
"He is like the light of morning at sunrise on a cloudless morning, like the brightness after rain that brings the grass from the earth." 2 Samuel 23:4
Words and music: Gary Miller
Lead: Cody Batten and Michael
Forehand
Sample: Windows
Media
Lyrics:
Sing (sing, sing) hallelujah
Sing (sing, sing) hallelujah
Chorus 1:
We've got this groove
Singing hallelu
We've got this
groove
With the faithful few
We've got to move
Tell the world the
news
For better, for worse I said
We've got this groove
Sing (sing, sing) hallelujah
Temporary world
Contemporary people
How to say the things we need
to say
We need to preach the word
Distinguish good from evil
We
need to show the world a better way
Chorus 2:
(We've got this groove) We've got this groove
Singing
hallelu
We've got this groove (we've got this groove)
With the
faithful few
We've got to move (we've got to move)
Tell the world
the news
For better, for worse I said
We've got this groove
Sing (sing, sing) hallelujah
Lessons left unlearned
A rite or a religion
Emptiness, futility
remain
Leaving things unchanged
And in the wrong
direction
Restoration lives to re-arrange
Repeat Chorus 2
Repeat Chorus 2 (with "Sing (sing, sing) hallelujah)" repeated in the background)
Sing (sing, sing) hallelujah
Scriptural Reference:
"You know the message God sent to the people of Israel, telling the good news of peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all." Acts 10:36
Words and music: Gary Miller and Brian Wiersma
Lead: Steve
Camping
Sample: Windows
Media
Lyrics:
On a hill outside Jerusalem
Soldiers led Him there to die for
them
As they nailed the hands that created men
He prayed that they
would be forgiven
A lowly carpenter from Galilee
Loved the wealth
that's found in poverty
Heaven's power clothed in humility
Let the
cross become His destiny
Chorus:
Through His stripes, I am healed
Through my hate, His
love revealed
Through my sin, shines His light
Through His death He
gives me life
Heaven's irony
The Father's love is full and
free
Heaven's irony
Jesus loves me
As the blood flowed from His wounded side
Tears of love flowed
as my Jesus cried
And the people mocked Him as He died
The innocent
was crucified
In a borrowed tomb they buried Him
With a paupers
shroud they covered Him
In a grave of hardly any worth
Lay the Maker
of the universe
Repeat Chorus (with echo in first half)
Bridge
And oh what a wonderful love I have known
Like a river of
life to my soul (river of life to my soul)
And oh what love (oh what
love) the Savior has shown
Making my heart His home
After three days as He prophesied
The stone was rolled away, no one
inside
Jesus resurrected, glorified
He's the way, the truth, the
life.
Repeat Chorus (with echo in first half)
(He loves me)
Heaven's irony (Heaven's irony)
The Father's love
is full and free
Heaven's irony
Jesus loves me
Jesus loves
me
Jesus loves me
Scriptural Reference:
"But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:8
Words and music: Gary Miller and Brian Wiersma
Lead: Brian Wiersma
(chorus and verses) and Michael Forehand (bridge)
Sample: Windows
Media
Lyrics:
Chorus:
Rise, pick up your bed and walk
Open your eyes and
see
Get out of the boat and walk on the water
Jesus the Lord is
here
Repeat Chorus
Can anybody save me?
Or see what a mess I'm in?
Sometimes I feel
I'm so far gone
That I'm never coming back again
My heart and body
broken
My mind is filled with sin
I needed somebody to pick me
up
Didn't know just where to begin
Until He said...
Repeat Chorus
Can anybody see me?
Does anybody care?
Sometimes I fell all hope
is lost
And live is so unfair
But miracles are waiting
For
everybody that despairs
Nothing gonna stop the power of God
And the
love He's got to share
He's gonna say...
Repeat Chorus
Bridge:
Heal the blind man who sits by the side of the road
Heal
the invalid reaching to touch his robe
Heal the leper Lord cleanse me
and make me whole
By the power of God!
He took our infirmities
And He carried away our disease
And the
people were awed and amazed
And praised God!
Repeat Chorus (x2)
Jesus the Lord is here
Jesus the Lord is here
Scriptural Reference:
"'Sir,' the invalid replied, 'I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.' Then Jesus said to him, 'Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.'" John 5:7-8
Words and music: Gary Miller
Lead: Steve Camping
Sample: Windows
Media
Lyrics:
Oh where, oh where
Pre-Chorus A:
What a beautiful vision
A wonderful mission
We
live together in love
What a treasure so precious
When brothers in
Jesus
We work together as one
Chorus:
Oh where on earth can this be found?
Where on
earth?
Where on earth does love abound?
Where on earth?
Pre-Chorus B:
What a sweet situation
A soul celebration
We
praise together in love
What a gathering gracious
Committed
courageous
We serve together in love
Repeat Chorus
Hope with honesty (where?), love with purity (where?)
A new
community (where?), can it be (where?)?
True integrity (where?), and
true equality (where?)
A new society (where?), can it be?
Repeat Pre-Chorus A
Repeat Chorus
One another fair (where?), a fellowship of care (where?)
A new
reality (where?), can it be (where?)?
Other's burdens bear
(where?), a brotherhood so rare (where?)
For eternity (where?),
can it be?
Repeat Pre-Chorus B
Repeat Chorus
Bridge:
Oh I need (Oh I need)
A state of believing, a place
to belong
How you need (How you need)
A time of rejoicing and
singing a song
What we need (What we need)
Love and enlightenment to
help us along
We all need (We all need)
Hope and encouragement to
keep us all strong
Repeat Chorus
Oh where?, Oh where? (Tell me where?, Won't you tell me?)
Oh where?,
Oh where? (Tell me where?, Won't you tell me?, Together as One)
Oh
where?, Oh where? (Tell me where?, Won't you tell me?, Together as
One)
Oh where?
Scriptural Reference:
"They are joined fast to one another; they cling together and cannot be parted." Job 41:17
Words and music: Gary Miller and Michael Forehand
Lead: Cody Batten
and Steve Camping
Sample: Windows
Media
Lyrics:
Chorus:
I wanna see Jesus in your life
And you to see Jesus in my
life
So that the whole world can see
Jesus in our lives
Cause no
matter what we believe
What we think or think we know
The world will
never see
Until Jesus' love we show
They wanna see Jesus
They
need to see Jesus in our lives
A vision out of focus
And a message out of time
A church that's
lost it's purpose
A directive with no prime
The people have a
desperate need, the people need the Lord,
It's life or death
The
pressure's on and for this case I plead
Repeat Chorus (with partial echo)
Worship is a mountaintop
And fellowship is sweet
And nothing
could be better
Than to live in harmony
We need to practice what
we're preachin'
Walk the things we talk
And share the love of Jesus,
take the gospel to the lost
Bridge:
Not just our goodness (not just our goodness), not just our
loyalties (not just our loyalties)
Not just the things that we think
that they should see (the things that they should see)
They need to see
Him (they've got to see Him) in every moment (in every moment)
We've
got to show them, it's up to you and me
I wanna see Jesus in your life
And you to see Jesus in my life
So
that the whole world can see
Jesus in our lives
Repeat Chorus
They wanna see Jesus (they need to see Him)
They need to see Jesus
in our lives
Scriptural Reference:
"And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you." Romans 8:11
Words and music: Gary Miller
Lead: Michael Forehand
Sample: Windows
Media
Lyrics:
Chorus:
Do you know Jesus? Do you know Him?
Are you believing?
Are you following Him?
Do you know Jesus? Do you know Him?
Are you
receiving? His sprit within?
Within your heart (within your heart),
within your mind (within your mind)
There's a yearning you've
denied
A hunger you can't hide
Within your heart (within your
heart), within your soul (within your soul)
There's a needing to
know
A wanting to be whole
Do you know Jesus? Do you know Him?
Do
you believe? (Do you believe?)
From the moment you were born
You were meant for so much more
You
have purpose in life
You have a place in this world
There's a God
who knows your heart
And He's loved you from the start
And you'll
never be alone
Because He'll never depart
Pre-Chorus:
Can you hear? (Can you hear?) Can you see? (Can
you see?)
Look at love in the face
Know His peace, know His
grace
Let Him in (let Him in), Let Him in (let Him in)
Let Him
capture your heart
Let Him win (let Him win)
Repeat Chorus
Choices made and things you've done
Leave you feeling all
alone
All alone in the dark
All alone in the cold
Can you lift
your eyes above?
Can you feel His warmth, His love?
He's your
Father, your friend
He's the Savior, the Son
Repeat Pre-Chorus
Repeat Chorus
Do you know Jesus? Do you know Him?
Do you believe? (Do you
believe?)
Do you believe?
Scriptural Reference:
"Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and when he found him, he said, 'Do you believe in the Son of Man?' 'Who is he, sir?' the man asked. 'Tell me so that I may believe in him.' Jesus said, 'You have now seen him; in fact, he is the one speaking with you.' Then the man said, 'Lord, I believe,' and he worshiped him." John 9:35-38
Words and music: Michael Forehand
Lead: Cody Batten and Michael
Forehand
Sample: Windows
Media
Lyrics:
Chorus:
This is love (this is love)
Not that we have loved
God
This is love (this is love)
But that He has loved us
This is
love (this is love)
Knowing that we have been forgiven
And that
Jesus Christ has paid the price
So that we might live
This is love
(this is love)
I can't understand
Why You would sacrifice this for me
I can't
comprehend
How only love can set me free
I just can't conceive that
the greatest love is the love You give
And You gave Your life so I
might live
And Your love will come again
Greater love (greater love) has no man...
Repeat Chorus
When I fall
You're there to heal my broken spirit
When I fail
(when I fail)
You're there to guide me on my way
And when I
kneel
You give your amazing grace to cover me
I'm surrounded by Your
song of peace
As You sing over me
Greater love (greater love) has no man...
Repeat Chorus
Bridge:
You called me
To your side
You called me
And with
you I will abide
You saved me
With Your love
You saved me
I
have a home above
This is love
Repeat Chorus (x2)
This is love (this is love)
Knowing that we have been
forgiven
This is love
Scriptural Reference:
"This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins." 1 John 4:10
Words and music: James White
Arrangement: Michael Forehand and
Gary Miller
Lead: Ryan Thomas
Sample: Windows
Media
Lyrics:
What heavenly music steals over the sea!
Entrancing the senses like
sweet melody!
'Tis the voice of the angels born soft on the air
For
me they are singing; their welcome I hear
On the banks of old Jordan, here gazing I stand
And earnestly
longing, I stretch forth my hand
Send a convoy of angels, dear Jesus I
pray!
Let me join that sweet music; come, take me away
Though dark are the waters and rough is the wave
If Jesus permit,
the wild surges I'll brave
For the heavenly music hath ravished me
so
I must join in that chorus! I'll go! let me go!
I must join in
that chorus! I'll go! let me go!
Scriptural Reference:
"The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands." Psalm 19:1
Special thanks for additions and/or corrections to: Michael Forehand and Brian Wiersma
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