(Intro) They talk about grace... a pretty little word, Define it on paper, a lesson unheard. They say it's unmerited, a gift from above, But they ain't lived it..., this kinda love... (spoken word intro) Then my friend, my brother, asked me the question: "What does saved by His Grace mean to you?" And all I could say at the time was... well nothing.... ...I didn't know the answer. (Yea.....) (Verse 1) God's Grace is a fist to the face of my past, It's the breath in my lungs when I knew I couldn't last. I've seen the bottom, a place you can't fathom, Did things in the darkness that left me an atom... And I feel His Grace now, in the dirt, in the pain... In the rise from the gutter, through the pouring rain. (Pre-Chorus 1) I used to be broken, a pile of mistakes, Now I'm standing here, for heaven's sakes. I feel the sunshine, hear the world come alive, His grace is the reason I'm here, I survived... (I survived) (Chorus) 'Cause saved by His Grace ain't a textbook line... It's the fight in my guts, a hand on my spine! It's the poison that's cut and the demons I fear, It's the clarity I found with a prayer and a tear! Saved by His Grace is the choice to stay clean, It's my brand new reality! (Verse 2) My memories hit me, they were so damn ugly... The drugs took my family, and made me a bad man... (damn) I lost my babies, the one thing I had, The ghosts of my choices haunted every night. The ache in my heart that would never heal, yeah it wasn't real... A father's empty hands they didn't want to feel... (Verse 3) Then the judge's gavel came dropping, three times I'm done, Staring at the bars, feeling less than nothing, just nothing... A jail cell floor, cold and unforgiving, A slow, painful way of barely living. From the drugs that I was always on the run, A shadow of a person that I'd become... But that was the person I knew I had to blame... it was all me... I was it... I was the one who needed to be fixed. (Pre-Chorus 2) I'm still flawed, still got work to do, Not the perfect Christian, but I'm pushing through. I feel the sunshine, hear the world come alive, His grace is the reason I'm here, I survived... (I survived) (Chorus) 'Cause saved by His Grace ain't a textbook line... It's the fight in my guts, a hand on my spine! It's the poison that's cut and the demons I fear, It's the clarity I found with a prayer and a tear! Saved by His Grace is the choice to stay clean, It's my brand new reality! (Verse 4) I fought like hell just to stand on my own two feet... I ripped the old life out, put it in the street. That fear of falling, it can't hold me down, A new sense of worth is the only thing I've found. There's a purpose now, a different kind of fight, A choice I make every single morning, every day and night... To keep my head up and walk in the light... (Verse 5) So let them define it, put it in a church, For me, it's the feeling after the last search... The silence after the lies, the demons I fought at night, It's the clarity that comes from a hard, honest fight. The demons I fight every day and night, The rising from a grave that was buried so deep... The new man in the mirror that I get to be. (Bridge) I don't need to hold on to the past... Just gotta live today, and make this change what I've became... The rise to come, with every choice I make... I've cast out my demons, I've cast out my legions, I put it down all at the altar... yeah I still falter, I still fumble, but I'm just a man... I'm a better man, a better father, a man with a plan... (I survived) (Verse 7) The ghosts of my past, they still haunt my sleep, The fight for my soul is a promise I keep. It ain't always easy, the choices ain't clear, Some days I still wish that the old me was here. But I stand on this ground, in a brand new light... I'll keep walking forward, in this new life's fight... (Chorus) 'Cause saved by His Grace ain't a textbook line... It's the fight in my guts, a hand on my spine! It's the poison that's cut and the demons I fear, It's the clarity I feel, now that the morning is here! Saved by His Grace is the choice to stay clean, It's my brand new reality... (Outro) Yeah, my brand new reality... They asked me what it meant... And at the time, I didn't know the answer. But I know it now...
