"Meet Me Here (I'll Never Make It Halfway)" Lyrics

Copyright 2008 Lyrics by: Andrea Emmes - Music by: Maia Rodriguez, Background vocals: Maia Rodriguez, Matthew Merchant

Lyrics

Verse
They say the road to heaven
Is a narrow path
Seek ye first His kingdom
And His riches we'll amass
He died for our freedom
Up there on the cross
He is the Lord Christ Jesus
Who suffered for the lost

Chorus
Meet Me
Here I'm not half of who I need to be
Meet Me Here
I'll never make it halfway
I know the road is long Lord,
I'm just not that strong
Meet Me Here
Meet Me Here

Verse
Of all the time I've worshipped
I've not gotten on my knees
To seek Your truth more clearly
To see the You in me
I've wandered on this path, Lord
The time it has no end
I need you to find me
To make me whole again

Chorus
Meet Me 
Here I'm not half of who I need to be 
Meet Me Here 
I'll never make it halfway 
I know the road is long Lord, 
I'm just not that strong 
Meet Me Here 
Meet Me Here

Bridge
Your word is talking to me
A fool that I have been
This distance I have kept you
We'll build that bridge again
But Lord I pray you take me
Take me as I am
And fill me with Your Spirit
So that I can live again!

Chorus
Meet Me Here
I need you, Father desperately
Meet Me Here
I'll never make it halfway
I know the road is long
Lord, you know I'm not strong…
​Meet Me Here… Oh-oh Meet Me Here

About the song

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My boyfriend (at the time) and I were talking about song ideas one day and said why don’t you write a song about meeting God where you are. He even came up with the title, “Meet Me Here (I’ll Never Make It Halfway”). I thought it was a brilliant idea. But it took me a few days to really come up with the storyline and the journey for my “character” or myself…most of my songs are me speaking about my own experiences. In the middle of the night about 2am or 3am, I just woke up and began writing the song and finished it in about 30 minutes. God does that a lot to me. I have written half of my songs like that. God will just wake me out of a sound sleep, between 2am-4am and I’ll just write an entire song. Sometimes, I will have completed the entire song in that one sitting, but most of the time I finish the major first draft and then will revisit the song later. Again, I had a completely different vision for this song melody and musically, and it was to be a harder rock song, very similar to one of Heart’s songs from the 80’s. Well, I was struggling to find a musician to help me with composing the music and then finally, this unbelievable gifted musician/composer friend of mine, Maia Rodriguez said that she would write with me but she asked if she could have free reign creatively with the melody and musical structure and composition. I said, “absolutely”, and I fell in love with what she came up with. Ever since then, any song that Maia and I write together, I let her write the melody and the music. I may give her guidelines of the style or feel that I’m looking for, but then I just let her go. Each time, it’s been magic. This song speaks about how no matter how hard I try to be a “good Christian”, I always seem to fail and that though my heart is willing, I need God to pick me up and help me the rest of the way.