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Lyrics and Stories Behind the Songs On Crossway's "Beautiful Thing" CDThe Gospel group Crossway is quickly becoming one of Southern Gospel Music's most popular groups. Crossway's music reaches a broad audience with a sound that ranges from Christian Country to Southern Gospel with a progressive edge. No matter how you try to categorize the music - and it does have a unique sound - it always fits under the category of "Good Music". I talked with Paul Smith shortly after the release of their album, "A Beautiful Thing ". This wonderful CD is the follow up to
"Beautiful Thing" shows Crossway progressing in their style down the road that "This I Know" started. The Country Music element is evident but it doesn't overshadow the harmonies that are distinctly Southern Gospel. "A Beautiful Thing"“The minute I heard this song I loved it”, smiles Paul Smith of Crossway. “I loved the feel of it. I loved that it is real fun to listen to and of course Matt sings it so well. I like the harmonies – it’s got some interesting harmonies.“It’s similar to the rest of the songs in applying the Word. One day we are going to be a beautiful thing. You know I may mess up here, I may mess up there, I may do this wrong, I may do that wrong, but in the end God’s going to make us a beautiful thing. Its just applying the Bible to what we are living today.”
Somedays I just believe Its more than faith it’s a fact Chorus You are the silent hand moving on the canvass of my life Verse 2 Sometimes I spin around Chorusx2
“This song is a deep song, not just a surface song. Everyday there’s stuff that happens to all of us. Like I lost my dad, my mom lost her husband, Scott almost lost his baby and could have lost his wife. There’s all kinds of situations where things get taken away from us in life and basically this song says even if God took everything away I would still praise His Name.” “Now that’s a hard thing to do but people do it everyday. People outside of Christianity will look at somebody that lost something and they are still praising God and ask how are they doing that. Well, its because God gives us the strength to do it. That’s what this song says.”
I’ve been numb from the shock of devastation Chorus That if You took it all away Verse Two God I must believe that You are with me Chorus Verse Three When I feel like I can’t last another day Chorus
This song title catches your attention the first time that you scan the back of the CD cover –“Thank God I’m Not Jesus”. Paul Smith reflects on how this song came to be on the “Beautiful Thing” album. “I like songs that make me think or realize things about Jesus. There’s something cool about a song that makes you reevaluate, think through everything and this is one of those songs.” “I’m not sure if I’ve ever heard anything like it. I remember I got a demo and when it started and the demo singer sang “Thank God I’m Not Jesus” I was like what in the world have they just sent me? Because I was”, Paul paused to search for the word, “I was stunned thinking what could that mean.” “Me and Matt were actually listening to it at the same time and we stopped what we were doing and just, we were just stunned by what the song said. Basically the song goes through the life of Jesus all the way through and talks about how a regular person, someone like me, if we were in a situation like He was in how we would handle it differently. “Now I know we are all Christians and I know we all want to do things right but there is no way we can compare to Him. He led a perfect life and did everything perfectly and without Him we would be condemned to hell. “The song goes through if you had people talking about you and cutting you down what would you do? If you were Jesus you could do anything and more than likely you wouldn’t put up with it. But Jesus did. “It talks about how Jesus made friends with the poor people and not the Pharisees. People today want to be friends with that can influence people and that wasn’t the way Jesus was. Imagine if you were in a courtroom and the judge was fixing to put down a verdict of guilty on all the stuff that you had not done. If you are Jesus you have the power to make him change his mind but He didn’t. And imagine if you or I were on the cross hurting as much as you could be hurting, as much pain as you could possibly feel and all you had to do is say a word and instantly it would be gone and angles would be there to help you. That’s not what Jesus did though. He didn’t call those angles. He went through that so we wouldn’t go to hell. “To me that just makes me realize how awesome, how much of a gift He gave us. It’s what he went through and the decisions He made throughout His life so you could go to heaven. To me it’s one of the best songs I’ve ever heard.
Thank God I’m not Jesus Thank God I’m not Jesus
“Matt will tell you he has trouble forgiving people sometimes so I think that’s why he wrote this song.” Paul smiles, “He probably wrote it for himself”.
Verse 1 Someone who calls You Friend Chorus Over and over and then one more time again Verse Two I know I’ve heard that story a thousand times before Chorus x2
Verse 1 I get down, I get all turned around, I get angry 
I get mad at the things that happened to hurt meAnd I pass every mirror by that I can’t bear to face Why do I look behind Verse Two I get stuck, I get used to the ruts,I’ve been running Why do I drag my feet Verse three Why am I scarred to love
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