2025 Competition Entry:

I am Yours by Loved2Love

Genre

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Artist

Co-writer(s)

no

Performer(s)

Elize Swart (piano and vocals; arranged piano and flute, singer-songwriter)
MIDI flute mapped to studio sounds
Vocal recording and mixing at Blueprint Studios (Gary Hadfield)

Description

This is one of my earlier songs. I tried to keep the lyrics simple, and more repetitive than I usually do. It is a personal testimony to God’s grace in my life, when I started to see how destructive some of my behaviours were, and how much it hurt my children.

Bio

Elize Swart is a piano teacher and creator of a step-by-step online beginner piano course. She’s also a singer-songwriter, storyteller, blogger, and Christian mentor, sharing her heart through music and words.

This is one of a few unpublished songs – unlisted on YouTube. I hope to complete an album in the future.

Lyrics

Come and replace my heart of stone
With one that beats like Yours alone
What I have done is out of place,
Destruction brought instead of grace.

How can I be a noisy gong
And sing a clanging cymbal song
How can I merely speak like man
But claim I’m part of heaven’s plan
And have no love, And have no love
And have no love, And have no love

Who am I if not Yours?
Who am I if not Yours?
Please stir in me – abundant love
To flow through me – grace-filled love
Who am I if not Yours?
Jesus the Christ in me

You live in me, Oh Spirit kind!
Convict my thoughts; renew my mind
Sometimes emotions have their way
But I find peace, close by Your side

Chorus:

Bridge:
How can I be a noisy gong
And sing a clanging cymbal song
How can I merely speak like man
But claim I’m part of heaven’s plan
And have no love, Still have no love
Fill me with love, For You are love


Who am I if not Yours?
Who am I if not Yours?
Please stir in me – abundant love
To flow through me – grace-filled love
I am Yours forevermore
Jesus the Christ, my King

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