If I Only Had Today
Hilary Weeks sings about life in such a way that listeners can relate. They remember what they already knew deep down, and find energy and excitement to face the day. Her latest release, If I Only Had Today, is no different.
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Track List:
- If I Only Had Today
- Faultless
- Just let me Cry
- Tender Behind the Mercy
- When You Least Expect It
- Reaching
- He Love Me
- You Give
- Now
- Take Me There
- It Would Never Be Enough
Lyrics:
“If I Only Had Today” Hilary Weeks It seems like I’ve watched a million sunsets And stared at a thousand full moons Sometimes it feels like I’ve been here forever And sometimes it all feels brand new I could never count the heartbeats From the day I was born until now But not a single one goes unnoticed By Him who breathes life in me somehow But if there were no more tomorrows If I knew that I could not stay I know how I’d spend every moment If I only had today I’d hold you and listen And I’d let the dishes sit in the sink I’d tell you I love you over and over And for once I’d just let the phone ring Then I’d remind you of forever And how our love would never change If I only had today I’d wake up before the sun did And I’d watch as you quietly sleep I’d pray for time to move slowly Knowing the moment won’t keep All the gifts that Heaven has given Every blessing that’s come my way Wouldn’t mean anything without you So if I only had today I’d hold you and listen I’d memorize every detail of your face I’d tell you I love you over and over I wouldn’t let excuses get in the way Then I’d remind you of forever And how our love would never change If I only had today There’s no time like the present Life doesn’t come with any guarantees The sun will set and time won’t wait So while I have today I’ll hold you and listen I’ll let the dishes sit in the sink I’ll tell you I love you over and over For once I’ll just let the phone ring And I’ll remind you of forever And how our love will never change Because I have today “Faultless” Hilary Weeks When the sun sets and another day is over I think about the person I wanna be When I hold up a mirror to my life Sometimes I don’t find who I was hoping to see I made mistakes today and I’ll probably make mistakes tomorrow I couldn’t save myself no matter how I beg or borrow I’m gonna need His grace On that day On the day of grace Through the Sinless One My sins will be washed away And I’ll stand worthy Only because He stands by me With mercy And love without end He will lift me So I’ll never fall again Then He’ll present me Faultless Faultless before God If my sins were drops of water And tried to hold them with my hands closed tight Some would slip through right past my fingers I couldn’t catch them all no matter how hard I tried But there are hands that have my name forever written on them The price was paid and not a single soul will be forgotten As we receive His grace On that day On the day of grace Through the Sinless One My sins will be washed away And I’ll stand worthy Only because He stands by me With mercy And love without end He will lift me So I’ll never fall again Then He’ll present me Faultless Faultless before God “Just Let Me Cry” Hilary Weeks I believe that everything happens for a reason We’re not just tossed by the wind or left in the hands of fate But sometimes life sends a storm that’s unexpected And we’re forced to face our deepest pain When I feel the heartache begin to pull me under I dig my heels in deep and I fight to keep my ground Still at times the hurt inside grows stronger And there’s nothing I can do but let it out Just let me cry I know it’s hard to see But the pain I feel Isn’t going away today Just let me cry Till every tear has fallen Don’t ask when and don’t ask why Just let me cry When I agreed that God could put this heart inside me I understood that there would be a chance that it would break But I know He knows exactly how I’m feeling And I know in time He’ll take the pain away But for now Just let me cry I know it’s hard to see But the pain I feel Isn’t going away today Just let me cry Till every tear has fallen Don’t ask when and don’t ask why Just let me cry I have felt joy the kind that makes my heart want to sing And so my tears are not a surrender I know I feel that way again But for now For this moment Just let me cry I know it’s hard to see But the pain I feel Isn’t going away today Just let me cry Till every tear has fallen Don’t ask when and don’t ask why Just let me cry I believe that everything happens for a reason “Tender Behind the Mercy” Hilary Weeks A candle sits in darkness Until there burns a flame And a river dry and barren Must wait for the gift of rain Like the river I have thirsted He has filled my cup Instead of just one tiny flame He gives me the sun He’s the tender behind the mercy The unconditional in love And when I need forgiveness He’s the Redeeming in Son More and more I see He’s the tender behind the mercy I’ve had moments in the spotlight And days I’ve wished to hide In sunshine or in the shadows He is by my side CHORUS Repeat More than once I’ve added to the pain he bore in Gethsemane Yet gentle as a morning breeze His love reaches out to me CHORUS Repeat Reaching(Carolyn Arends) There’s a time I can recall
Four years old and three feet tall
Trying to touch the stars and the cookie jar
And both were out of reach
And later on in my high school
It seemed to me a little cruel
How the right words to say always seemed to stay
Just out of reach Well I should not have thought it strange
That growing causes growing pains
‘Cause the more we learn the more we know
We don’t know anything But still it seems a tragic fate
Living with this quiet ache
The constant strain for what remains
Just out of reach We are reaching for the future
We are reaching for the past
And no matter what we have we reach for more
We are desperate to discover
What is just beyond our grasp
But maybe that’s what heaven is for There are times I can’t forget
Dressed up in my Sunday best
Trying not to squirm and to maybe learn
A bit of what the teacher would teach
And later lying in the dark
I felt a stirring in my heart
And though I longed to see what could not be seen
I still believed I guess I shouldn’t think it odd
Until we see the face of God
The yearning deep within us tells us
There’s more to come So when we taste of the divine
It leaves us hungry every time
For one more taste of what awaits
When heaven’s gates are reached Repeat chorus I believe that’s what heaven is for
There’s a time I can recall
Four years old and three feet tall
Trying to touch the stars and the cookie jar
And both were out of reach “He Loves Me” Hilary Weeks Don’t it seem sometimes like the world is falling And you’re standing underneath You’ll never get out from under it Or at least that’s how it feels With a load so heavy and the days so long You can barely breathe And the only thing that keeps you standing Is getting on your knees When I need that burden lifted When my strength is gone There is one thing That keeps me holding on Deeper than my heart can hide Stronger than I feel inside More than I realize He loves me Steady as the day goes by Longer than the reach of time Enough to give His life He loves me I have felt it in the darkest night When He stayed with me till dawn On the days when I’m too weak to walk He carries me along Above the noise and the clatter down deep in my soul In the middle of my pain He tells me I can make it And He promises to stay In a world where nothing’s certain I can count on this There is no love No love truer than His CHORUS Repeat “Now” Hilary Weeks I was blind Walking in the dark Until I saw your light You opened my eyes and lit the path before me Clearly And now I see A heart of stone Guarded by pain Until I found your love You broke down the walls, rebuilt the trust inside me Patiently And now I feel Abandoned and lost Unsure of my worth Until I felt your grace On Calvary’s cross you gave your life to save me Willingly And now I know “Take Me There” Hilary Weeks There is a place where every tear drop that falls is counted And every piece of the heart that’s been broken is put back together A place where healing begins And the hurting ends Take me there I’m ready to go Cause I can’t carry this by myself anymore Wrap me up Hold me tight in Mercy’s arms Let your sweet, sweet peace Pour over me And heal my soul On the wings of this prayer Take me there There is a place where the past doesn’t cast any shadows Where love fills the corners of the heart and little by little Dreams dare to be dreamed again Only broken know the way there Cause they’ve walked Redemptions road CHORUS Repeat I need your name I need your grace Oh to lead to that place Please take me to the place Where you can heal my heart Where you can heal my soul Where you can heal me CHORUS Repeat
“It Would Never Be Enough”
Hilary Weeks, Tyler Castleton, Lowell Alexander
If pen and paper could script God’s glory
And speak of His wondrous love
Every chapter ever written would never be enough
If words and music could fill the Heavens
And sing of His grace from above
Every chorus ever offered would never be enough
If all of our praises for ever more
Were each grain of sand on ten thousand shores
Alleluia
Alleluia
I would never be enough
If all the ages were but an instant
To worship and lift Him up
Countless lifetimes of endless moments
Would never be enough
CHORUS Repeat
