Highlands (Song of Ascent) (Live)

Oh, how high would I climb mountains

If the mountains were where You hide

Oh, how far I'd scale the valleys

If You graced the other side

Oh, how long have I chased rivers

From lowly seas to where they rise

Against the rush of grace descending

From the source of its supply

'Cause in the highlands and the heartache

You're neither more nor less inclined

I would search and stop at nothing

You're just not that hard to find, oh-oh

I will praise on the mountain

And I will praise you when the mountain is in my way

You're the summit where my feet are

So I will praise You in the valleys all the same

No less God within the shadows

No less faithful when the night leads me astray

'Cause You're the heaven where my heart is

In the highlands and the heartache all the same, oh-oh

Oh, how far beneath Your glory

Does Your kindness extent apart

From where Your feet rest on the sunrise

To where You sweep the sinner's past?

And oh, how fast would You come running?

If just to shadow me through the night

Trace my steps through all my failure

And walk me out the other side

For who could dare ascend that mountain

That valleyed hill called Calvary

But for the one I call Good Shepherd

Who like a lamb was slain for me

Oh-oh-oh, I will praise You on the mountain (you sing)

I will praise You when the mountains in my way

You're the summit where my feet are

So I will praise you in the valley all the same

No less God within the shadows

And no less faithful when the night leads me astray

'Cause You're the heaven where my heart is

In the highlands and the heartache all the same

Oh-oh-oh-oh (sing it out)

Whatever I walk through, wherever I am

Your name can move mountains wherever I stand

And if ever I walk through the valley of death

I'll sing through the shadows my song of ascent

Whatever I walk through, wherever I am

Your Name can move mountains wherever I stand

And if ever I walk through the valley of death

I'll sing through the shadows my song of ascent

My song of ascent

Oh, oh, oh (and sing it out)

My song of ascent

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

From the gravest of all valleys

Come the pasture we call grace

A mighty river flowing upward

From a deep but empty grave

So I will praise You on the mountain

I will praise You when the mountains in my way

You're the summit where my feet are (yes You are)

I will praise you in the valley all the same

No less God within the shadows

No less faithful when the night leads me astray

You're the heaven where my heart is

In the highlands and the heartache all the same