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  • He -Jars of Clay

    I received the original Jars of Clay album on tape, free in a contest from K-love held at a Jars of Clay concert at First Baptist Church in San Jose.  It was Jars’ first performance in the Bay Area I think.

    This is the song that defined my childhood.  God saw to it providentially that I received the only free tape for a household that still doesn’t own a CD player, and one in which I had no personal spending money to purchase any music.  Anyone remember this song?

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    Don’t try to reach me,if I’m already dead
    The pain when it grips me, for things that I’ve done

    Well I try to make you proud, but for crying out loud
    Just give me a chance to hide away
    the Exhaustion takes over, will this someday be over?

    chorus:
    Fearful tears are running down
    The pain you’ve laid don’t speak a sound
    Don’t take my heart away from me
    And they think I fell down, again

    Daddy, don’t you love me?
    Then why do you hit me?
    Momma don’t you love me
    Then why do you hurt me?
    Well I try to make you proud, but for crying out loud
    Just give me a chance to hide away
    the Exhaustion takes over, will this someday be over?

    A teardrop falls from up in the heavens
    Drowning the sorrow of angels on high
    For the least of the helpless, the hopeless, the loveless
    Your Jesus, His children, He holds in His eyes

    He loves you
    He sees you
    He knows you
    protects you
    He needs you
    He holds you