Amy Grant

Took a drive along the west bank of the shore
I thought of what you said and then I thought some more
You say your life has all been chiseled out in stone
And all you want is just a taste of the unknown
I think it was yesterday I called you on the phone
You say you need a change, I recognize the tone
Buy me a ticket please to anywhere I'll go
I'm not saying what is right or what is wrong
I'm just thinking you've been hanging here too long

Why don't we just up and leave it all behind
Maybe a change would ease your mind, for a time
Leave it all behind

What I really want to do is see you smile
Hear you talk and let me listen for a while
There's too much going on to keep it all inside
You try to whisper but you start to scream and shout
What you need is just a place to let it out

So why don't we just up and leave it all behind
Maybe a change would ease your mind, for a time
We will see if there's a place that we could go
Someplace that no one else will know how to find
Leave it all behind
Try to whisper but you start to scream and shout
What you need is just a place to let it out

So why don't we just up and leave it all behind
Maybe a change would ease your mind, for a time
We will see if there's a place that we can go
Someplace that no one else will know how to find
Leave it all behind

By the time Amy Grant was nineteen, she was Contemporary Christian music’s most celebrated singer. Grant grew up in the Church of Christ where she sang for God two nights a week. As a teen, she decided to pursue a career in music, writing her first song while attending devotional meetings at her high school.

Grant recorded a demo while working as an intern at a recording studio and the owner was so impressed he signed her to his own label and released her first album Amy Grant in 1977. It spawned three top 10 songs on Billboard’s Christian Songs chart.

The following year, Grant began touring while balancing college studies. Her second album My Father’s Eyes was released in April 1979. At its record release party, she met future first husband gospel singer Gary Chapman. He’d written its title track, and it would become her first of many Christian Songs Chart-toppers. Her third album Never Alone came out in 1981 and features the #3 Christian Songs hit “Look What Has Happened To Me”.

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