The band My Epic has been around for a few years now, but I only recently discovered them. I can’t praise them highly enough. The music is well-crafted, intelligent, and highly-layered, especially for a 3-piece. But it’s their lyrics that truly take the cake. The song posted here, “Lazarus,” has one of the best lines I’ve heard in quite a while:

I quit striving for perfection, surrendered up to it instead.

Enjoy!

My Epic‘s new acoustic EP, “Broken Voice” is available on iTunes, Amazon MP3, Spotify, etc.

I can’t sing that song the same way anymore
‘Cause I start laughing at the parts where I could only weep before
And it sounds sweeter now because the notes can’t ring
Until they echo through each wasted year that You restored to me

I’ve been thinking of how You wept for Lazarus
Tears on Your cheeks, resurrection on Your lips
Sometimes mercy can feel like abandonment, but You know all about it

I used to think I had to write these songs just so
For heavens sake and for my own, I put myself through hell
But I quit striving for perfection, surrendered up to it instead
Now the songs keep pouring out & I cannot contain myself

I’ve been thinking of how You wept for Lazarus
Tears on Your cheeks, resurrection on Your lips
Sometimes mercy can feel like abandonment, but You know all about it
You let my heart die, but left Yours beating in my chest
(Broken will, find your rest, broken voice, you sing best)

At 30,000 feet above, the earth was small enough to think of everyone I love
And then imagine them a thousand mirrors all reflect it back at once
And any light would multiply and then remind me that Your love is more than the sum