[Verse 1]
Waking up in a haze of distraction
And the world's spinning right in your face
What you need is a righteous reaction
Of wisdom, wisdom and grace
[Chorus]
Seek it like silver
Hold it like gold
Keep it like treasure, down in your soul
Down in your soul
I gotta tell ya, you ought to know
Seek it like silver
[Verse 2]
You will walk and your feet will not stumble
You will lie down and not be afraid
And it will bring you sweet peace, peace when you slumber
All of your days
[Chorus]
Seek it like silver
Hold it like gold
Keep it like treasure, down in your soul
Down in your soul
I gotta tell ya, you ought to know
Seek it like silver
[Verse 3]
Where your treasure is
Where your treasure is
There your heart will be
There your heart will be
Oh and you can measure it
You can measure it
By the fruit you see
Hanging on the tree
Hold it like gold
Keep it like treasure, down in your soul
Down in your soul
I gotta tell ya, you ought to know
Seek it like silver
(Hold it like gold)
Where your treasure is
Where your treasure is
There your heart will be
There your heart will be
Oh and you can measure it
You can measure it
Seek it like silver
Hold it like gold
Seek it like silver
Hold it like gold
Seek it like silver
Hold it like gold
Seek It Like Silver
Song Meaning
Point of Grace draws "Seek It Like Silver" almost directly from Proverbs' own instruction to search for wisdom "as for hidden treasures." The verses describe the ordinary condition wisdom is meant to answer — "waking up in a haze of distraction," a world "spinning right in your face" — before naming the specific remedy: not confidence or willpower, but "wisdom, wisdom and grace."
"You will walk and your feet will not stumble, you will lie down and not be afraid" echoes Proverbs' own promised outcomes for the one who keeps wisdom close, treating the search as genuinely practical rather than purely intellectual. The third verse pulls in a second biblical image — "where your treasure is, there your heart will be" — tying the pursuit of wisdom to the same logic Jesus used about treasure and devotion, measured "by the fruit you see hanging on the tree."
The repeated title phrase, stacked with "hold it like gold" and "keep it like treasure" by the end, treats wisdom the way the ancient proverb did — worth the same effort and value most people reserve for wealth.