[!intro] verse i am a branch in your hand a tender shoot reaching for the sun but without your life i am nothing more than a dry and crumbling vine you bend me toward the light i cannot find chorus abide in you abide in me the fruit we bear is not our own it grows from the roots you have sown we are never left alone verse you prune me clean with every word a surgeon’s knife that makes me whole but every wound a whispered truth that i am not my own bridge if i fall away what hope remains a branch unbound to wither and burn the fire awaits what love disdains a hollow shell of no concern chorus abide in you abide in me the fruit we bear is not our own it grows from the roots you have sown we are never left alone outro so let me ask what you will give the father’s heart the spirit’s breath to dwell in me to live in you the vine that conquers death
