im on a Christian school and we sing this every mirning

Lyrics:

Here I am, hurt again
lyin' in this empty room
All I have left to do
is writing words in this song
I still remember the day that you said you'd be gone
And since that day I've been waiting for you to come home

Look what you've done to me
All those days here with me
Now I'm alone
You're gone
You promised me to be
near me when I can't see
my own way home (I'm alone, oh no)
But you're gone
Can't you see I'm falling,
crumbling, tryin' to save my soul
Oh no, why have you left me alone?

Everytime I close my eyes
I can still hear your words
You said you love me but
now I'm here writing this song
I still remember the day that you said you'd be gone
You promised me you'd be there for me
closing the door

Look what you've done to me
All those days here with me
Now I'm alone
You're gone
You promised me to be
near me when I can't see
my own way home
But you're gone
Can't you see I'm falling,
crumbling, tryin' to save my soul
Oh no, why have you left me alone?

So now I'm wondering if sayin' goodbye
Would be enough for me to move on without you by my side.

Look what you've done to me
All those days here with me
Now I'm alone
You're gone

(Now you're gone) Look what you've done to me
All those days here with me
Now I'm alone
You're gone
You promised me to be
near me when I can't see
my own way home
But you're gone
Can't you see I'm falling,
crumbling, tryin' to save my soul
Oh no, why have you left me alone? (why have you left me alone)
Why have you left me alone? (why have you left me alone) x 3
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To understand what makes Rend Collective so unique and special among worship artists, you have to go back—way back. Some 1500 years ago, the Irish missionary St. Brendan sailed from the Irish coast without maps or any clue where he was headed. “The only thing he knew was that God had called him,” says bandleader and drummer Gareth Gilkeson. And so Brendan chose to “go”: a bold act of faith that not only echoes the album title As Family We Go, but also speaks volumes about the songs.

It also tells you a lot about Rend Collective, a Northern Irish band that has ventured from its native land at the beckoning of an invisible hand. And they’re doing it differently than most other artists before them, living and working—singing and sharing the laundry duties—as a tight-knit family. It’s just the foundation to foster faith and community through music, and forms the heart and strength behind their latest effort.

And my, how this musical family has grown. This young, freewheeling band has seen so much recent success: from opening for the likes of Chris Tomlin, Matt Redman and Kari Jobe, to landing Christian radio hits such as the revival hymn, “Build Your Kingdom Here.”

The next logical step, then, was to hunker down in their private studio and work at a brisk, breathtaking pace—cutting the eleven tracks on As Family We Go in two weeks. As Gilkeson puts it: “There wasn’t much time for sleep—just going for it.”

In this case, sleep deprivation yielded divine inspiration. Then again, how many bands brave a family pilgrimage the way Rend Collective does? Or proudly present themselves as examples of a self-styled genre, “celebration music”?

Though that describes the sound on the new disc—a joyful mélange of foot-stomping acoustic grooves and full-on pop pockets worthy of U2—it only hints at the spiritual thread that pulls everything together.

“We want to make music that is journey music,” says singer Chris Llewellyn. “We notice that sometimes music is seen as the end goal, that a worship encounter is having a music experience. But that’s not really it; it should be the soundtrack to mission: community living, the soundtrack to a meaningful worship experience.”

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