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be a man

This is a hard decision
but I know what I have to do
when everything within me
just wants to run away and hide

but I love you
and I must do what love does

So I'll be a man
and lay my life down
Say "no" to self
but give all that I am to you

I know this won't easy
it must happen every day
For I have made a promise
I am yours and you are mine

and I love you
but I can't let it be just words

So I'll be a man
and lay my life down
Say "no" to self
but give all that I am for you
for you

Just let me be, let me breathe
This is a fight to love you more than me

So I'll be a man
and lay my life down
Say "no" to self
but give all that I am

to be a man
who lays his life down
You are the one I love
So I will serve you all of my days

Ephesians 5:21-33

This is one of those songs that just started on it's own one night, then later I realized that it was partly inspired by what I had read in a book called, "God's Gift to Woman," which is about being the man God designed you to be, totally giving your Self to God and putting Him on the throne in place of Self... only then will you be the man that God intended you to be, one that a woman can truly consider a gift from God.