Be Your Everything
Song Meaning
God speaks in the first person here, answering a list of hard moments. "When you're lost and all alone, I will be your sure way home." When left out in the cold, "I will be your shelter from the storm." Doubt, darkness and death each get a matching promise: "I will be the light that guides you" and "the life inside you."
The chorus is an offer rather than a demand, "Let me be your everything... look at all that I will bring in exchange for what you have." Later verses ask for sorrow, shame and pain, with the assurance that "the price is paid." The bridge borrows Paul's list, "neither height nor depth, nor life, nor death," to say nothing could separate anyone from that love.
Romans 8:38-39 supplies that list directly. Matthew 11:28 invites the weary to bring their burdens, and John 8:12 gives the light image behind the line about wandering in the dark.
[Verse 1]
When you're lost and all alone
I will be your sure way home
When you're left out in the cold
I will be your shelter from the storm
When you're clouded by your doubts
When you're surrounded and there's no other way out
I will be all that you need
And I'm here for the asking
Yea
[Chorus]
Let me be your everything
Let me be your everything
Look at all that I will bring
In exchange for what you have
[Chorus]
Let me be your everything
[Verse 2]
When you're wandering in the darkness
I will be the light that guides you
And when death is standing at your doorway
I will be the life inside you
[Verse 3]
When you face your deepest fears
When you can't see thru all the tears
I will stay year after year
So patiently waiting
Here me saying
Let me be your everything
Let me be your everything
Look at all that I will bring
In exchange for what you have
Let me be your everything
[Bridge]
So bring your sorrow, bring your shame
All your suffering and your pain
Don't you know the price is paid
If only you'll let me be
[Bridge]
Neither height nor depth, nor life, nor death
The angels above or the demons beneath the sea
Could ever separate you from
The love in me, so won't you
Let me be your everything
Let me be your everything
Look at all that I will bring
In exchange for what you have
Let me be your everything
So bring your sorrow, bring your shame
All your suffering and your pain
Don't you know the price is paid
If only you'll let me be
If only you'll let me be
Let me be your everything
Your everything
Yea