Amy Grant

Released: June 28, 1988

Songwriter: Jerry McPherson Gary Chapman Amy Grant

Producer: Brown Bannister

We were young
And none of us know quite what to say
But the feeling moved
Among us in silence anyway
Slowly we had made
Quite a change--
Somewhere we had crossed a big line
Down upon our knees
We had tasted holy wine
And no one could sway us
In a life time

Purer than the sky
Behind the rain
Falling down all around us
Calling out from a boundless love
Love had lit a fire;
We were the flame
Burning into the darkness
Shining out from inside us

Not a word
And no one had to say we were changed
Nothing else we lived through
Would ever be same the same
Knowing the truth
That we had gained

Purer than the sky
Behind the rain
Falling down all around us
Calling out from a boundless love
Love had lit a fire;
We were the flame
Burning into the darkness
Shining out from inside us

Stay with me
Make it ever new
So time will not undo
As the years go by
How I need to see
That's still me

Falling down all around us
Calling out from a boundless love

Yeah....

Burning into the darkness
Shining out from inside us

Purer than the sky
Behind the rain
Falling down all around us
Calling out from a boundless love
Love has lit a fire;
I am the flame
Burning into the darkness
Shining out from inside us

Purer than the sky
Behind the rain
Falling down all around us
Calling out from a boundless love. (Ohh....)
Love has lit a fire;
I am the flame
Burning into the darkness
Shining out from inside us

Purer than the sky
Behind the rain
Falling down all around us
Calling out from a boundless love

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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