1) Inside Out was a hard… Read Full Bio ↴There are multiple artists with this name:
1) Inside Out was a hardcore band from Orange County, California, USA, active from 1988—1991. It was fronted by Zack de la Rocha, who later went on to front Rage Against the Machine. Inside Out released only one EP, 'No Spiritual Surrender' (1990) on Revelation Records. The band were part of the straight edge subculture. They played all over the West Coast and even toured the East Coast once before their breakup. After writing material for a second record, to be titled Rage Against the Machine, the band broke up when their guitarist, Vic DiCara, left the band to become a Hare Krishna monk and started 108, also briefly joining Burn.
2) Inside Out (NY) was a band from lower Westchester County in the late 1980's who released the Above All 7" on Noiseville Records. They also appear on the Sunday at the Anthrax DVD and played a reunion show in New York in 2010.
3) Inside Out (Detroit USA) are an all-female power trio who formed in 1985, and specialised in a brand of hardcore punk / grunge / psychedelia in the vein of female grunge bands such as Babes in Toyland and L7. They released a number of singles in the period 1990 - 93, along with 2 LPs. The singles were on Meantime Records, Icon Records and Anti-Music Records. The LPs were both released by Meantime Records. The band also recorded a Peel Session for Radio 1 DJ John Peel. They disbanded in 1995 but have recently re-formed and are gigging.
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4) Inside Out is a Dutch black gospel choir formed in 2000. The choir is led by Clifton Grep and has a repertoire of contemporary black gospel songs. In 2003 Inside Out released their first album Let the praise begin. Followed by Stronger in 2005 and the live recorded album Alive in You in 2008.
Three vocals of Inside Out ended between the last four candidates of the Dutch tv-contest Idols in 2008. One of them, Nikki, won the contest.
5) Inside out is an all male a capella sextet formed in 1999. http://www.insideout-acappella.com/
Come Thou Fount
Inside Out Lyrics
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Tune my heart to sing thy grace;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
Sung by flaming tongues above,
Praise the mount; I'm fixed upon it:
Mount of thy redeeming love.
Here I raise my Ebenezer, Hither by
Thy help I'm come
And I hope, by thy good pleasure,
Safely to arrive at home,
Prone to wander, Lord I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love,
Here's my heart. O take and seal it;
Seal it for thy courts above.
Jesus sought me when a stranger,
Wand'ring from the fold of God,
He, to rescue me from danger,
Interposed his precious blood,
/Prone to wander, Lord I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love./
O to grace how great a debtor Daily
I'm constrained to be!
Let they goodness, like a fetter, Bind
My wandering heart to thee
Prone to wander, Lord I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love.
Here's my heart. O take and seal it;
Seal it for thy courts above.
The first verse of Inside Out's "Come Thou Fount" is an appeal to God to be the source of every blessing in life. The singer asks God to tune his heart to sing of His grace and mercy that never cease. The streams of mercy that flow from God are so astounding that they call for songs of the loudest praise. The singer then asks to be taught some melodious sonnet, which is sung by the flaming tongues above, and to be fixed upon the mount of God's redeeming love.
The second verse begins with the phrase "Here I raise my Ebenezer," which refers to 1 Samuel 7:12, where Samuel sets up a stone monument to commemorate God's help in delivering Israel from the Philistines. The verse is the singer's acknowledgment of God's help in his life thus far and his hope that, by God's good pleasure, he will safely arrive at his eternal home. The singer confesses that he is prone to wander away from God and admits that he needs God's help to avoid it. He then offers God his heart, asking Him to take and seal it for His courts above.
The third verse is a testimony of how Jesus sought and rescued the singer when he was wandering away from God. Through the interposition of Jesus' precious blood, the singer was rescued from danger, and his heart was bound to God. Like the writer of the hymn, Robert Robinson, the singer acknowledges that he is prone to wander away from God and be in debt to His grace. He prays that God's goodness will bind his wandering heart to Him.
Line by Line Meaning
Come thou Fount of every blessing;
Lord, you are the source of all good things in my life;
Tune my heart to sing thy grace;
Help me to center my heart on your goodness and love;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
Your mercy and love for me are unending and never run dry;
Call for songs of loudest praise.
Your goodness and love for me are so great that they deserve the loudest praise;
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
Teach me a song that is pleasing to you;
Sung by flaming tongues above,
Like the songs that the angels sing in heaven;
Praise the mount; I'm fixed upon it:
I will praise you for the sacrifice you made for me on the cross, and my focus is on you alone;
Mount of thy redeeming love.
The cross, where you showed your love for me by paying the price for my sin.
Here I raise my Ebenezer, Hither by Thy help I'm come
I acknowledge that I have come this far only by your help and grace;
And I hope, by thy good pleasure,
I trust that it is your good pleasure to help me reach my final destination;
Safely to arrive at home,
To reach my eternal home with you in heaven;
Prone to wander, Lord I feel it,
I am aware of my tendency to stray from you and I need your help to stay on the right path;
Prone to leave the God I love,
I know that I am vulnerable to wander away from my love for you;
Here's my heart. O take and seal it;
I give you my heart, and I ask you to guard and protect it from wandering away from you;
Seal it for thy courts above.
Keep my heart steadfast, so that I may enter your courts in heaven where I belong.
Jesus sought me when a stranger,
Even when I was lost, you came to find me;
Wand'ring from the fold of God,
When I was lost, I had strayed away from your loving embrace;
He, to rescue me from danger,
You saved me from the danger of being lost and alone;
Interposed his precious blood,
You paid the ultimate price for my salvation with your precious blood;
O to grace how great a debtor Daily I'm constrained to be!
I owe everything to your grace, and every day I am compelled to live a life of gratitude and service to you;
Let they goodness, like a fetter, Bind My wand'ring heart to thee
Keep me close to you through your abundant goodness, help me to stay anchored to you and not wander away.
Prone to wander, Lord I feel it,
Again, I acknowledge my tendency to wander away from you;
Prone to leave the God I love.
I know that I can easily fall away from my love for you;
Here's my heart. O take and seal it;
Once more, I give you my heart and ask that you keep it safe;
Seal it for thy courts above.
Guard my heart so that I may one day enter your heavenly courts and be with you forever.
Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., TUNECORE INC
Written by: CHARLES GABRIEL, ROBERT ROBINSON
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