Amy Grant

Songwriter: Bruce Hibbard Gary Chapman Amy Grant

Guess I've got a lot of learning to do
About the way that You love
If it had been left up to me
I'd given up a long time ago
But You've got a way of wooing me
Tender and true
And though I don't deserve it
I'm falling into Your

Open arms
Your love has taken hold
And I can't fight it;
I'm giving in to Your
Open arms
They pull me to You;
They wrap Your love around me;
I'll rest in Your open arms

Only yesterday the thought came the to me
Is Your love as deep as they say?
Wonder where those questions come from
Soon as I learn, I'll chase them away
'Cause I've had a taste of tenderness
Simple and true
It drives away the doubting
And draws me into Your

Open arms
Your love has taken hold
And I can't fight it
I'm giving in to Your
Open arms
They pull me to You;
They wrap Your love around me;
I'll rest in Your open arms

Open arms
Your love has taken hold
And I can't fight it
I'm giving in to Your
Open arms
They pull me to;
They wrap Your love around me;
I'll rest in Your open

Open arms
Your love has taken hold
And I can't fight it
I'm giving in to Your
Open arms
They pull me to You;
They wrap Your love around me;
I'll rest in Your open...(open arms)

I know, I know, I know
And I can't fight it
I'm giving in to Your
Open arms
They pull me to;
They wrap love around me;
I'll rest in Your open arms (open arms)

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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