"I'm On My Way" Lyrics

Lyrics by: Andrea Emmes - Music by: Maia Rodriguez Copyright 2008

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This is a very special song that took about 3 months to write and was originally titled, “Don’t Tear My Heart Out”. I also write non-Christian songs, and this was gonna possibly be one of my “mainstream” songs. Well, I had everything but the second verse and the bridge written. I was stuck. So, I shelved it for awhile. Then, again, at 2am, God woke me up and gave me another inspiration for this song. I broke out my notes and started to re-arrange verses and choruses and finding new lyrics and finally came up with this song. It’s a song that has a couple of meanings/references. First, I had been praying for a friend of mine who had been going through a lot of problems in her marriage and struggling with many personal things. That’s when God woke me up and I started writing it for her. Once it was finished, I realized that it wasn’t just for her pain, but it was for my pain too. My anguish, pain, sorrow, loneliness, helplessness in my situation with CRPS and saw that it was extremely poignant on speaking for me. I really think this is a song that so many people can relate to. Christians of any age, whether they are new Christians or have been a Christian their whole life. So many times, we can dive deep into our own problems and forget that we have God to help us out of our valleys. We are human and will never be infallible. We are always going to need God and I’m asking God, crying to God, begging God to help me, show me, fill me, be patient with me as I limp my way through this life. Maia wrote the music and I cried the first time I heard it. I listened to it for 2 hours straight, just crying because that small woman in my heart was just aching for God to hold me. I really want to give encouragement others with this song, same as I do with “Don’t Cry”. No matter what you’re going through, whatever place you are in your life or your walk with the Lord, there will be times when tragedies or hard times will come into our lives that we just can’t explain—9/11, Katrina, Suicide, Death of a child, Diseases, etc,. and we need to know that God is there with us, through the pain and the hurt. This reminds me of the famous “Footprints” story of how we question where God is when we only see one set of footprints in the sand and the truth is that He’s carrying us. It’s ok to hurt and be scared. But God is there.

Verse
Been crying for days
And the rain won’t stop
My eyes are a blur
As I glance at the clock
Then a soft voice is humming
From deep within
Saying, where are you going?
Look where you’ve been.
Is this really how you hoped it would be?
Then I look to the Heavens, praying,
Lord can you hear me?

Chorus
This is my journey to you
Within this mess I call my life
I’m on my way to seek Your Truth
To find Your Peace and Your Light
Is it true of Your Grace?
How you died so I’d be saved?
I’m on my way, Lord
I’m on my way, to you.

Verse
Lord, I’m looking to you now
As I cry myself to sleep
It’s late in the evening
Will I ever break free?
Of this pain that I’m feeling
Then I hear you calling to me
With a loving tug
You remind me You’re here with me
It’s not where I’ve been
Or who I was
But it’s who I am in you
And where we go from here,
because

Chorus 
This is my journey to you 
Within this mess I call my life 
I’m on my way to seek Your Truth 
To find Your Peace and Your Light 
Is it true of Your Grace? 
How you died so I’d be saved? 
I’m on my way, Lord 
I’m on my way, to you.

Bridge
Will you help me through this valley?
Hold my hand along the way
Be the one that I can lean on
So I can see another day
Will you show me what to do?
Cause I’m barely hanging on

Chorus x2

End chorus
This is my journey to you
Within this mess I call my life
Now I want Your Truth
And I need Your Light
Now is it true that You died so I’d be saved?
I’m on my way, Lord
​I’m on my way, to you