Open the Gates

Open the Gates

[Verse 1]

I came in with my hands undone

Ash on my tongue, no place to run

The room was cold, the floor was stone

But I heard your name in my bones

I wore my hurt like Sunday black

Carried every shadow on my back

Then you looked through all my smoke

And the first small light began to broke

[Pre-Chorus]

So pull me closer

Pull me through

I’m halfway lost

And halfway new

The walls start shaking

When I call Your name

I’ve been sinking

You still came

[Chorus]

Open the gates

Let mercy in

Open the gates

I’m coming again

Open the gates

Break through my night

Open the gates

And make me alive

(Open the gates)

(Open the gates)

[Verse 2]

I know the cracks inside my prayer

The bruised-up thoughts I hid in there

I kept my tears in a locked-up jar

You found the dust and the broken scar

Now I’m not begging just to feel

I want the kind of love that heals

If I’m a shadow, make me bright

If I’m the grave, speak into light

[Pre-Chorus]

So pull me closer

Pull me through

I’m halfway lost

And halfway new

The walls start shaking

When I call Your name

I’ve been sinking

You still came

[Chorus]

Open the gates

Let mercy in

Open the gates

I’m coming again

Open the gates

Break through my night

Open the gates

And make me alive

(Open the gates)

(Open the gates)

[Bridge]

If You can meet me in the ruin

Meet me here

If You can love me in the fire

I’ll stay near

I was marked by all my endings

But You still sing

Over the ashes in my hands

New life, new wings

[Final Chorus]

Open the gates

Let mercy in

Open the gates

I’m coming again

Open the gates

Break through my night

Open the gates

And make me alive

Open the gates

I’m not the same

Open the gates

Call me by name

Open the gates

I can see the light

Open the gates

And make me alive