Till It Kills Me

By Trulah & Madison Ryann Ward

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Lyrics & Music by Trulah & Madison Ryann Ward

Mind on the loose

Running freely

Though I could choose

It's not that easy

All the things I leave behind

Living for another life

Guess I will love you

Till it kills me

Mind on the loose

Can you heal me

Always accused

Of what I used to be

Reaching for the things I know

Something that'll make me whole

I'm gonna love You

Till it fills me

Fill me with Your joy again

Give me peace that's heaven-sent

Surpassing what I understand

Fill me till I overflow

Keep me when I wanna go

You're my everlasting hope

Mind on the loose

Would You cleanse me

Invade every room

Renew my thinking

Troubled waters of the mind

I need you to walk beside

I'm gonna love You

Till it stills me

Still me to a quiet place

Be my only hideaway

Lord I'm needing your embrace

I'm gonna love you through and through

I wanna love like You

So I will love you

Till it kills me

Behind the Song

Written from a place of vulnerability and honesty, Till It Kills Me articulates the inner wrestlings of death to self.

The call to Christ is a call to die.

Jesus said in Mark 8:34-35

Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it.’

Though the call to die may sound morbid, it’s the sort of death is not a condemnation, it is for our good. It is a death to self, and to all that perishes, harms and enslaves.

It is a death that yields life.

The reward and hope being as 2 Timothy 2:11 puts it, 

‘If we have died with him [Christ], we will also live with him; if we endure, we will also reign with him.

And so, having the same resolve as Paul in Philippians 3:10-12, we die that we might live eternally with Christ:

‘I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.’

We pray this song would serve you as God heals, reveals and keeps you in Christ, by way of return and rest in Him.