The Secret Place Exhale Acoustic

​[Intro]

(Soft acoustic guitar fingerpicking)

(Gentle humming)

(Spoken softly) I'm putting the armor down tonight, Lord.

​[Verse 1]

Washed my hands of the day, but the water's still cold

These clinic hallways can make a spirit feel old.

Three little boys sleeping tight in their beds

While I'm downstairs fighting the noise in my head.

I don't have the strength for a warrior's song

I just need a place where the broken belong. (Take me there)

​[Pre-Chorus]

So I'm making an altar right here on the floor

I'm not fighting the current or the wind anymore.

​[Chorus]

(Warm, soulful vocal belt)

And I just exhale!

Let the Holy Spirit fill up the room! (Fill the room)

Yeah, I exhale!

Chasing out the heavy, chasing out the gloom.

No armor tonight, no shield left to hold

Just resting in the arms that won't let me go.

Right here in the secret place.

I exhale.

​[Verse 2]

Got the textbooks closed on the kitchen table

Trying to prove to the world that I am able.

Carrying the pressure to be everything to them all

Waiting for the moment I finally fall.

But You whisper, "Daughter, you've already won." (Already won)

The striving is over, the battle is done.

​[Chorus]

(Background harmonies swell gently)

And I just exhale!

Let the Holy Spirit fill up the room! (Fill the room)

Yeah, I exhale!

Chasing out the heavy, chasing out the gloom.

No armor tonight, no shield left to hold

Just resting in the arms that won't let me go.

Right here in the secret place.

I exhale.

​[Verse 3]

You knit me together, You counted my tears

You're breaking the cycles, erasing the years.

Taking off the heavy yoke, laying it down

Trading my exhaustion for a heavenly crown. (Heavenly crown)

My soul is an empty cup, thirsty and dry

Drinking from the well that never runs dry.

​[Bridge - The Altar Call]

(Guitar slows down to a gentle strum. Deeply intimate)

(Softly building)

Shanda-la-ba-ra-ka... Shanda-la-ba-se-te...

Breathe in the peace. (Breathe it in)

Breathe out the pain. (Let it go)

Healing in the water of the latter rain.

Shanda-ra-ba-sanda... Shanda-ra-ba-kaya...

The presence of the Lord is in this place!

Washing every burden away by His grace!

​[Outro]

(Slow acoustic picking fading out)

No armor tonight. (Shanda-la-ba-ra-ka)

I'm resting.

Exhale.

(Fade to silence)