WELCOME HOME
Release Date: May 2, 2006

MY ANSWER IS YOU
(Brian Littrell, Tony Wood, Sue Smith, Guy Zabka)

There's a world of difference
Faith is in our heart
It stands out like sunlight
When life becomes so dark
And when those around me ask me why I dare to dream
Or why I love, or why I sing

Chorus:
My answer is you
My answer is you
You're the hope that my heart is holding on to
Skeptics won't understand
Its strange from the worlds point of view
My answer is you

And I find it incredible
To believe what I can't see
They might think its foolish
Or even say its weak
I wanna live my life so differently because of faith
And it causes them to question (For me to say)

Chorus:
My answer is you
My answer is you
You're the hope that my heart is holding on to
Skeptics won't understand
Its strange from the worlds point of view
My answer is you

You the reason I'm alive
For everything good in my life
My answer is you

My answer is you
My answer is you
You're the hope that my heart is holding on to
Skeptics won't understand
Its strange from the worlds point of view
But my answer is plain and its simple Lord
My Answer is you
My answer is you

WELCOME HOME

(Brian Littrell, Dan Muckala)

When I left home to be who I am
Some people said no way
But I laid it all down
Gave everything
In my head rang the words
That my father said

You're never far
I will be where you are
And when you come to me
I will open my arms

Welcome home you
I know you by name
How do you do
I shine because of you today
So come and sit down
Tell me how you are
I know son, it's good to just see your face

When i look at you
Holding my heart
I give to you all that i have
Son I know, there'll be times that
You'll feel all alone
I will share with you
The words my father said

You are never far
I will be where you are
And when you come to me
You can bet i will open my arms

Welcome home you
I know you by name
How do you do
I shine because of you today
So come and sit down
Tell me how you are
I know son, it's good just
To see your face

I've been waiting for that day
Just to feel your warm embrace
Your love has shown
That I will never be alone
For you will welcome me home

I'll forever be
For you will say to me
Welcome home

I know you by name
How do you do
I shine because of you today
So come and sit down
Tell me how you are
I know son, it's good just to see your face

When I left home to be who I am
Some people said no way

GONE WITHOUT GOODBYE
(Billy Mann)

Have you seen my son?
Not too tall, 5"8
She held up a colour copy photograph
From his wedding day
And this is his pregnant wife
Carrying his last dream
He walked down 46 floors before he felt the rush
The rush of gasoline

I can feel the pain
Looking in their eyes
But I don't know gone without goodbye
If I could reach the sky
I'd bring him right back to your arms
Though I haven't seen your son
He's forever in my life

And have you seen my little girl?
She's got curly black hair
She took this raggedy-Anne doll everywhere
Last I saw her over there
Then I heard a choir of screams
And a speeding van
I watched his tears pour down
A father's last attempt
At being a rational man.

For I can feel the pain
Look into his eyes
But I don't know gone without goodbye
If I could reach the sky
I'd bring her right back to your arms
Though I haven't seen your girl
She's forever in my life

And have you seen my faith?
It can run and it can hide
Jesus mend this breaking heart of mine
It keeps our love alive

Oh I can feel the pain
Look into my eyes
But I don't know gone without goodbye
If I could reach the sky
I'd try to turn the world around
So that we could see the face
Of forever stay alive

OVER MY HEAD
(Brian Littrell, Don Poythress, Brian White, Michael Puryear)

I tried to figure it out
Time and time again, and time again
I guess there's some things I'll never understand
'Cause your ways aren't our ways
But deep down in my soul, down in my soul
There is one thing I know that I know

I'm in over my head
I'm right where I wanna be
I'm so lost within your love
The love that always covers me
So high, so deep, so wide
A strong and cleansing tide
My soul has found a place to rest
I'm in over my head

I've been holding on
and now I'm letting go, just letting go
gonna let your love carry me away
I don't know where I'm going
but I'm surrounded by the truth
And I can feel the current pulling me
Deeper and deeper into you

I'm in over my head
I'm right where I wanna be
I'm so lost within your love
The love that always covers me
So high, so deep, so wide
A strong and cleansing tide
My soul has found a place to rest
I'm in over my head
I'm in over my head

And I'm in over my head
I'm right where I wanna be
I'm so lost within your love
the love that always covers me
So high, so deep, so wide
a strong and cleansing tide
my soul has found a place to rest
I'm in over my head
I'm in over my head
I'm in over

You see me for who I am
You gave me a challenge a head
You made me understand
That your love has always covered me

GRACE OF MY LIFE

(Brian Littrell, Mark Harris, Tony Wood)

I lie awake so often at night
With something to read and something to write
In the silence my mind is free
To think of the ways that God has blessed me
Its easy to see how he's been so kind
Any proof I might need is right here by my side

You are the grace of my life
So tender, so undeserved
Hard to believe you're my wife
Even harder to put what I feel into words
If I need evidence god is good
Just looking at you is enough
You are the grace of my life
For you grace my life with your love

Love that is pure, so faithful and strong
You forgive me when I do you wrong
Seeing you, yeah, time after time
A picture on Earth, a love so divine
Oh I am amazed for how can it be
Someone like you would love someone like me?

You are the grace of my life
So tender, so undeserved
Hard to believe you're my wife
Even harder to put what I feel into words
If I need evidence God is good
Just looking at you is enough
You are the grace of my life
For you grace my life with your love

Oh you are the grace of my life
for you grace my life with your love

JESUS LOVES YOU

(Brian Littrell, Mark Kibble, David Thomas)

Baylee: I wanna hear Jesus Love You Daddy. 1, 2, 3, go!

All my life I've heard Him say
Jesus loves you!
I dropped down on my knees to pray
Jesus loves you!
I asked Him to come into me
Jesus loves you!
From Him He gives eternity

Jesus loves you (yes He does)
Jesus loves you (yes He does)
Jesus loves you (yes He does)
For the Bible tells us so

You need to look inside yourself
Jesus loves you!
You can't take with you all your wealth
Jesus loves you!
He will give to you an inner strength
Jesus loves you!
He walked on water but you will sink

Jesus loves you! Jesus loves you! Jesus loves you! Oh!
For the Bible tells us so

Said He's the One that died for me
Jesus loves you!
And that's the reason I believe
Jesus loves you!
And He has done the same for you
Jesus loves you!
So watch and see what He can do

Baylee: That was fabulous daddy! I gotta go! I love you daddy and mommy.

It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Everywhere you go
Take a look in the Five and Ten
Glistening once again
With candy canes and silver lanes aglow

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Toys in every store
But the prettiest sight to see
Is the holly that will be
On your own front door

A pair of hopalong boots and a pistol that shoots
Is the wish of Barney and Ben
Dolls that will talk and will go for a walk
Is the hope of Janice and Jen
And Mom and Dad can hardly wait
For school to start again

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Everywhere you go
There's a tree in the Grand Hotel
One in the park as well
The sturdy kind that doesn't mind the snow

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Soon the bells will start
And the thing that will make them ring
Is the carol that you sing
Right within your heart

A pair of hopalong boots and a pistol that shoots
Is the wish of Barney and Ben
Dolls that will talk and will go for a walk
Is the hope of Janice and Jen
And Mom and Dad can hardly wait
For school to start again

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Soon the bells will start
And the thing that will make them ring
Is the carol that you sing
Right within your heart
Right within your heart

Nativity

I remember every Christmas on my mother's china hutch
Sat a tiny nativity I was not allowed to touch
I would stand on tip to peering pensive eyes wide
Imagining what I would do if I were there inside

Would I kneel beside the manger worship him on my knees
Would I be of any service to the savior soon to be
Could I persuade the unknowing to accept him in their home
If I were there with Jesus would I help to right the wrong

I remember every Easter at the central Baptist church
Hearing of a story, not so joyous as his birth
I would sit so still thinking how it's seemed unfair
Imagining what I would do if I had been right there

Would I kneel before the cross, and worship him on my knees
Would I be of any service to the savior soon to be
Could I persuade the unknowing to accept him in their home
If I were there with Jesus would I help to right the wrong