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Remember To Remember

By Steven Curtis Chapman

1,613 views Sep 13, 2026 updated Remember to Remember - Single album Verified editorial review

Song Meaning

Steven Curtis Chapman structures "Remember To Remember" as a look backward before any look forward — "I've been looking back over my shoulder, retracing every step" — treating memory itself as the discipline the song is teaching, not a sentimental detour before the real point. "I see the mountaintops I've journeyed over, and I see the valleys deep where I crawled on my hands and knees" refuses to remember only the good parts.

The chorus's repeated command, "remember the way He led you... remember the way He carried you through the deepest dark," pairs two different postures of grace — being led when upright and capable, being carried when not — rather than describing only one kind of help. "As sure as the sun will shine there'll be more mountains I will climb" uses the past record as a predictor rather than a closed chapter.

The final verse shifts from the singer's voice to God's own — "remember the way I led you... remember the way I carried you" — so the last repetitions of the title phrase land as a promise spoken back, not just advice given. "He's going to wipe the tears away" borrows Revelation's language, placing this remembering in view of a future where it will finally be unnecessary.

Lyrics Verified by Editorial Team

Well I’ve been looking back over my shoulder

Retracing every step trying to unforget

And I see the mountaintops I’ve journeyed over

And I see the valleys deep where I crawled on my hands and knees

Pages and memories filled with joy and stained with tears

They call my name and if I listen I can hear them saying


Remember the way He led you up to the top of the highest mountain

Remember the way He carried you through the deepest dark

Remember His promises for every step on the road ahead

Look where you’ve been and where you’re going

And remember to remember


Remember

Remember


And now I’m looking out at the road that’s waiting

But my eyes can only see so far out ahead of me

As sure as the sun will shine there’ll be more mountains I will climb

And more deep dark shadowlands where desperate faith is all I have

Until I’m home I’m resting all my hope and trust

In the only One whose name is God with us


Remember the way He led us up to the top of the highest mountain

Remember the way He carried us through the deepest dark

Remember His promises for every step on the road ahead

Look where we’ve been and where we’re going

And remember to remember


Remember the day is coming when He’s going to wipe the tears away

He’ll look in our eyes and say

Remember the way I led you off the mountain

Remember the way I carried you


Remember the way I led you up to the top of the highest mountain

Remember the way I carried you through the deepest dark

Remember my promises for every step on the road ahead

Look where you’ve been and where you’re going

Look where we’ve been and where we’re going

And remember to remember


Oh Remember to remember

Oh Remember to remember

Oh remember to remember

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