Amy Grant

Songwriter: Ron Hemby

I can't relive my life
I can't retrace my tracks
I can't undo what's done
There is no going back
I chased a selfish dream
Did not survey the cost
Illusions disappeared
I found my innocence lost

Some say it's lessons learned
Some say it's living life
I say it's choices made
Knowing right from wrong
One night I fought to sleep
In my slumber I turned and tossed
I woke to a cloudy day
Found my innocence lost

An innocent child is a beautiful thing
Secure in a Father's arms
Sleeps while Mother sings
There's no way to know
All the harm this world can bring
I miss my innocence
Oh to be innocent

My heavenly Father
The well of eternal love
That overflows with grace
I can completely trust
My broken heart repaired
And all my sins forgot
I can be pure again
In spite of my innocence lost

In His eyes I'm a newborn child
'Cause I accept His love
I have a new found hope
Though I found my innocence lost

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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