Amy Grant

Released: January 1, 2010

Songwriter: Chapin Hartford Sarah Hart

Producer: Dan Muckala

[Verse 1: Amy Grant]
God loves a lullaby
In a mother's tears in the dead of night
Better than a Hallelujah sometimes

[Verse 2: Amy Grant]
God loves the drunkard's cry
The soldier's plea not to let him die
Better than a Hallelujah sometimes

[Chorus: Amy Grant]
We pour out our miseries
God just hears a melody
Beautiful, the mess we are
The honest cries of breaking hearts
Are better than a Hallelujah

[Verse 3: Amy Grant]
The woman holding on for life
The dying man giving up the fight
Are better than a Hallelujah sometimes

[Verse 4: Amy Grant]
The tears of shame for what's been done
The silence when the words won't come
Are better than a Hallelujah sometimes

[Chorus: Amy Grant]
We pour out our miseries
God just hears a melody
Beautiful, the mess we are
The honest cries of breaking hearts
Are better than a Hallelujah

[Bridge: Amy Grant]
Better than a church bell ringing
Better than a choir singing out, singing out

[Chorus: Amy Grant]
We pour out our miseries
God just hears a melody
Beautiful, the mess we are
The honest cries of breaking hearts
Are better than a Hallelujah

[Chorus: Amy Grant]
We pour out our miseries
God just hears a melody
Beautiful, the mess we are
The honest cries of breaking hearts
Are better than a Hallelujah

[Outro: Amy Grant]
Better than a Hallelujah sometimes
Better than a Hallelujah
Better than a Hallelujah sometimes

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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