Lyrics

What If They Knew
Marsha Stevens-Pino and Chip Davis copyright 2006

There?s a question some days that can silence my song:
What if they knew everything I do wrong?
All of the anger, addiction, regret?
Things I know I should do, but I just haven?t yet.
What if I don?t believe all they think I should?
What if my motives are misunderstood?
I know that what I am singing is true,
But would they listen if they only knew?

This broken heart is still wondering, too,
Then gentle, persistent the message comes through,
The question that matters: What if they knew?
(Chorus:)
YOU, who calms every fear
You, who dried each sinners? tear.
Whose gentle eyes I always find,
Really leaves no child behind,
Who?s mercy?s new with every dawn
This is why I sing my song:
What if they knew?what if they knew You?

I was just a little child when I first heard you call.
I still cannot believe the many ways I fall.
The doubt that can linger, the ways I feel small,
The times I could just walk away from it all.
How can it be that You would use me this way,
Knowing all the countless times I have gone astray?
Maybe it lets them hear how I need You.
Only through my brokenness can Your light shine through.

If it?s in my weakness they can see You?re strong,
If my letting go helps someone else hang on,
Then this fragile heart offers You one more song.
(repeat Chorus:)

Don?t let this awkward heart turn one seeker away.
Please don?t let them stumble on my feet of clay.
In all that I do, just let them see? (repeat Chorus)