Beauty for Ashes (Sop, Key of Eb)

Arrangment of "Beauty for Ashes" for Soprano soloist and piano accompaniment.

Lyrics:

I know you count your past regrets

Aware the full breadth of your debts

I see you’re burdened by despair

Your broken heart for which I care

I feel your cravings to belong

With the world you went along

I’ll grant forgiveness that you seek

Turn back to me, I’m within reach

Chorus

I’ve come to rescue all mankind

The bitter, broken, and the blind

I feel the mourning of the masses

And I give them beauty for ashes

I want to give you all good things

And bare you up on eagle’s wings

We’ll walk each step, my hand in yours

Together open heaven’s doors

Bridge

And I know you can’t find your way

That you’re lost on unholy ground

Hear my voice calling out your name

Fear not, you will be found

I’ve been forsaken and betrayed

In agony I bowed and prayed

I carried cross, and crown, and sin

And rose from death to life again