Amy Grant

Songwriter: Brown Bannister Amy Grant

Fairytale
My life was just a fairytale
I was letting an illusion
Come into this heart of mine
Fairytale
Searchin' for a fairytale
Hiding in a world
Where life was simple all the time

I was just like Peter Pan in Never Never Land
Afraid of what the future might be
Afraid to face the things I couldn't understand
Afraid of things that I couldn't see

But fantasy
I know there's more to life than a fantasy
There's so much more that my life was meant to be
So much more than make-believe

Fairytale
It seems just like fairytale
But there's something in my heart
That says this time the story's real
Fairytale
Extraordinary tale
Of a King who offers love
So far beyond what I can feel

There's a world out there that human eyes can never see
But it's just within the reach of the heart
Two princes wages the battle for eternity
But the Victor has been known from the start

Now I can see
The truth can seem so much like a fantasy
But make-believe was never as real to me
I know this time the story's true

Just like Sleeping Beauty in a neverland
I was dying under a spell
But then a Prince who comes from the foreverland
Awakened me from my fairytale

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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My Father’s Eyes

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My Father’s Eyes (1979)

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