This is where the walls gave way / This is demolition day / All the debris, and all this dust / What is left of what once was / Sorting through what goes and what should stay

Every stone I laid for You / As if You had asked me to / A monument to holy things / Empty talk and circling / Isn’t that what we’re supposed to do

What happens now / When all I’ve made is torn down / What happens next / When all of You, is that that’s left

This is the unmaking / The beauty in the breaking / Had to lose myself / To find out who You are / Before each beginning / There must be an ending / Sitting in the rubble / I can see the stars / This is the unmaking

The longer and the tighter that we hold / Only makes it harder to let go / But love will not stay locked inside / A steeple or a tower high / Only when we’re broken, are we whole

What happens now / When all I’ve made is torn down

I’ll gather the same stones where / Everything came crashing down / I’ll build You an altar there / On the same ground

‘Cause what stood before / Was never Yours.


Written by Nichole Nordeman and David Hodges © 2015 Birdwing Music / Birdboy Songs (ASCAP) (Admin. at CapitolCMGPublishing.com) / 3 Weddings Music / Songs Of Kobalt