| Just wanna take some time to let some things off my chest
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| Been through hard times, bad times
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| But through it all, my soul still soars higher
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| Yeah, I’m going higher
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| My soul shall sour higher/though the darkness falls, my soul shall sour higher
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| (2ce)
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| In the heat of the African sun/And in the cold of winters snow
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| Though I bleed and moan in pain/Yet my soul shall soar higher
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| Passersby by may mock and jest/Upon my head men’s feet may rest
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| Though my name men away may cast/Disgust and turmoil my closest ally
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| No one to trust and no song to sing
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| Yet I shall not die and I refuse to cry
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| When all men expect a sigh/Instead I’m going to give a smile
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| Yet my soul shall soar higher
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| I choose to look to Him who gave His all for me
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| In His death He saw victory/In His pain He saw countless joy
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| Though upon His head rested a crown of thorns/And a robe of shame upon Him was
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| laid
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| Yet without malice to the maimers of his flesh/He counted It all joy the
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| anguish that He suffered
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| Though affliction may try my faith/And no words to describe the challenges I |
| face
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| Yet my soul shall soar higher.
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| I may be troubled but I’m not distressed
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| I may be perplexed but I’m not in despair
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| I may be afraid but I’m not overwhelmed
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| I may be in battle but I’m not embattled
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| for many they may be that persecute me/Yet I’m not forsaken
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| It may seem to you that my head is bowed down in shame and defeat
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| Make no mistakes about it/ For I’m only scheming a comeback plan
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| For the mountain before me may be so tough but it can’t get any tougher;
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| Guess what, I can
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| So though the enemies of God may knock on every side
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| I shall yet sit in the table prepared before me in their sight
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| For yet, my soul shall sour higher
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| I have decided to follow Jesus, period
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| Do not try to stop me for you will try in vain
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| I will fight the fight and I will run the race
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| I will strive to the finish line and I will claim my prize Bruised and battered,
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| I will not give up
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| With my face smeared with sweat, dust and blood
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| Yet will I say say in faith’s battle field arena:
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| If the world would crucify me for standing for a cause that I know that is |
| right,
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| Then let my words be published in all heavens,
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| I will do it, For yet my soul shall soar higher.
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| I refuse to named among timid souls whose lives stood for nothing
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| Who’s tasted neither victory nor defeat
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| Neither shame nor fame
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| Who’s made no footprints in the sand of Time
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| For their feet was affixed in one position all the days of their lives
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| For the fear of failure I say they have failed
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| I refuse to be a common man
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| Cos it’s my right to be uncommon if I can
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| Therefore I seek opportunity and not security
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| That with neither fear nor timidity
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| I will take the calculated steps to dream and to build
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| And to make footprints in the sands of my time
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| And most certainly, my soul shall sour higher
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| And so finally my brethren: after all is said and done
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| It is my election to ensure that there is more done than said
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| And so to you my dear soul:
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| If at the end of time I realize/That the streets of heaven are not paved with
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| gold as I was told
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| And that there are no such rewards as stars and crowns that shine as brightly |
| as the sun
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| But for the reward of Jesus Christ the son/Yet shall my mouth be filled with
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| laughter and my heart be filled with joy,
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| For what more shall I ask for, Jesus is all that makes it heaven for me.
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| And so to You my dear heavenly Father: May this gentle soul of mine never find
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| peace or rest
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| Until I have become all that you wish for me to be
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| Samsomg: I’m going higher
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| I’m a hero walking on a narrow road
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| I’m a lion just about the roar
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| and though the mountain seems so tough, I’m just that tough
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| and I’ll be standing upright until I cross the finish line
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| and, most certainly, my soul shall soar higher |