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This a revision of song I wrote a while ago. Critique as hard as you want and enjoy!

The Surrendering

I’m down to my last defense.
I heard that You’re invading this land;
So I locked my heart with rusted bars and took a stand.
But I had no idea of the power of Your offense.
The last wall wobbles, then comes crumbling down.
There’s nothing now of my fortress which I prided;
It couldn’t survive when our forces collided.
It’s either surrender or die fighting the Crown.
Your law, Your sword, means death eternally;
I must surrender to receive the delegates of mercy.

This is the surrendering.
I’m stopping trying to repair this rampart
That at Your glance will just fall apart.
This is the surrendering.
I’m letting the white flag fly high.
I’m lifting my hands up to the sky.
Conqueror, come in and control my soul.
I must relinquish and give You my heart whole.
This must be the surrendering.

I’m subject to You, my King.
I thought vassal to You would be slavery,
But I find everlasting liberty.
I’m bondman and yet am free to sing.
The defeat of my felony and sin
Produces sweetest service to my Lord,
One Who I should have ever adored.
Gone are my days of being an assassin.

My ways, my strife means death eternally.
I must obey to receive the blessings from Your store.

This is my surrendering.
Stooping my selfishness to be
Accepting of the burden You give me.
This is my surrendering.
Finding pleasure in serving You Majesty,
Pursuing to be a daughter of royalty,
All earthy shields I have flung behind.
In You my purpose must be defined.
This must be the surrendering.

I quench the selfish battle cry
And my voice in prayer to the sky.
I lower my own feeble sword
And raise the white flag to You Lord.
If rumbles of rebellion near my mind,
Lord, I pray that those rebels I will bind.
Never relent to their selfish ways –
Always to give You every one of my days.