Lyrics

The Church on Ashley Street

There's a place down on Ashley Street
Where the city trains and the buses meet
Anyone can walk right in
Lonely people can find a friend
Beggars sit with businessmen
Where we lay our burdens down
we're all on level ground

We come with our broken hearts, battered dreams and hopes
Bound by the bonds we share of
Children gone and growing up
Love lost, tragedies, memories of Christmas eves,
We laugh, we love, sometimes we grieve

There's a lady that we all know
Who always sits on the second row
She lost her husband and her child
She's been coming here for quite a while
And always has the sweetest smile
When you ask her how she is
She always sings God's praise

She says I come with my broken heart
My battered dreams and hopes
Bound by the bonds we share of
Children gone and growing up
Love lost, tragedies, memories of Christmas eves
I've been through the fire
But God is still good to me

There are gentle giants who walk by faith
And talk about the way God's grace
Has led them through the years
Some of us have just begun
To see the light of God's own Son
He's the reason that we meet
At the church on Ashley Street.

We come with our broken hearts
Our battered dreams and hopes
Bound by the bonds we share of
Children gone and growing up
Love lost , tragedies, memories of Christmas Eves
We're bound by our love and the truth that we believe.

copyright 2005 Jennifer Moore