I've been trying to make sense of the sorrow that I feel
Holding on for life to the only thing that's real
I've only scratched the surface, I've barely had a taste
But just a glimpse draws my heart to change
And one sight of you lays my sin to waste
I don't need to see everything just more of you
Take it all, take it all away
Magnify no other name
Open up, open up my eyes
To you
Take it all, take it all away
Magnify no other name
Open up, open up my eyes
To you
My sight is incomplete and I've made you look small
I've been staring at my problems for way too long
Re-align where my hope is set, until you're all that's left
But just a glimpse draws my heart to change
And one sight of you lays my sin to waste
I don't need to see everything just more of you
Take it all, take it all away
Magnify no other name
Open up, open up my eyes
To you
Take it all, take it all away
Magnify no other name
Open up, open up my eyes
To you
Oh God be greater, than the worries in my life
Be stronger, than the weakness in my mind
Be louder, let your Glory come alive
Be magnified
Oh God be greater, than the worries in my life
Be stronger, than the weakness in my mind
Be louder, let your Glory come alive
Be magnified
Take it all, take it all away
Magnify no other name
Open up, open up my eyes
To you, to you
Take it all, take it all away
Magnify no other name
Open up, open up my eyes
To you, to you
Magnify No Other Name
Song Meaning
We Are Messengers' “Magnify No Other Name” begins with confusion: “I've been trying to make sense of the sorrow that I feel, holding on for life to the only thing that's real.” The singer says he has “only scratched the surface” of knowing God, but a glimpse is enough to change him, and “one sight of You lays my sin to waste.” He asks for more of God and not for an explanation: “I don't need to see everything, just more of You.”
The chorus is a prayer to be emptied of everything else. “Take it all away, magnify no other name. Open up my eyes to You.” The second verse names the problem as perspective. “My sight is incomplete and I've made You look small,” and he has been “staring at my problems for way too long.” He asks to be realigned until God is all that remains, and the bridge asks that God be “greater than the worries in my life, stronger than the weakness in my mind, louder,” and finally “be magnified.”
Magnifying the Lord is Psalm 34:3, and opening the eyes is Psalm 119:18. Wanting God to increase is John 3:30, “he must increase, but I must decrease.”