(1): Irish singer-songwriter based in Dublin, Ireland. Se… Read Full Bio ↴Stephen Hill
(1): Irish singer-songwriter based in Dublin, Ireland. See Stephen Roy Hill on LAST.FM.
(2): American gospel singer-songwriter. See stephenhillmusic.com for details.
(3): The artist also known as WICKER.
Something Within
Stephen Hill Lyrics
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Fighting as soldiers on great battlefields;
When to their pleadings my poor heart did yield,
All I can say, there is something within.
Something within me that holdeth the reins,
Something within me that banishes pain;
Something within me i cannot explain,
2 Have you that something, that burning desire?
Have you that something, that never doth tire?
Oh, if you have it - that Heavenly Fire!
Then let the world know there is something within.
3 I met God one morn', my soul feeling bad,
Heart heavy laden with a bowed down head.
He lifted my burden, made me so glad,
All that I know there is something within.
The first verse begins by painting a picture of preachers and teachers making their appeal and fighting as soldiers on great battlefields. It suggests that the battles they are fighting are not physical but rather spiritual or moral. The singer of the song admits that they were moved by their pleadings and that their poor heart yielded to their teachings. The last line of the verse, "All I can say, there is something within" suggests that the singer has been touched by something greater than themselves. This line serves as the chorus and is repeated throughout the song.
In the second verse, the singer poses a question to his audience asking if they have that same "something within" - a burning desire that never tires. Here, the something within is referred to as a "Heavenly Fire" and the singer urges those who have it to let the world know.
In the last verse, the singer shares a personal experience of meeting God one morning when feeling bad. He describes his heart as heavy and his head as bowed down. But God lifted his burden and gave him a sense of joy and happiness. This experience, like the ones in the previous verses, is attributed to the something within.
Overall, the lyrics of "Something Within" suggest that there is an unseen force that guides and inspires us if we are open to it. It also suggests that this force is accessible to everyone, not just preachers and teachers, and that we can all have a personal relationship with it.
Line by Line Meaning
Preachers and teachers would make their appeal,
Those who preach and teach often make emotional appeals, like warriors on a battlefield.
Fighting as soldiers on great battlefields;
They are like soldiers fighting a great battle for the hearts and minds of their listeners.
When to their pleadings my poor heart did yield,
When I gave in to their emotional appeals,
All I can say, there is something within.
I felt something deep within me.
Something within me that holdeth the reins,
There is something inside me that controls me,
Something within me that banishes pain;
Something that can take away my pain,
Something within me i cannot explain,
Something that I cannot put into words,
All that I know there is something within.
All I know is that this feeling is real.
Have you that something, that burning desire?
Do you have that same feeling, that burning desire inside you?
Have you that something, that never doth tire?
Do you have something that never gets tired or goes away?
Oh, if you have it - that Heavenly Fire!
If you have it, that feeling of something within, it is like Heavenly Fire!
Then let the world know there is something within.
Let the world know that this feeling is real and powerful.
I met God one morn', my soul feeling bad,
One morning, when I was feeling down and sad,
Heart heavy laden with a bowed down head.
When my heart was weighed down and my head was bowed,
He lifted my burden, made me so glad,
God lifted my burden and made me happy,
All that I know there is something within.
All I know is that this feeling inside me is what helped me through that tough time.
Writer(s): Warryn Campbell, John Smith, Nisan Stewart, Glendon Campbell
Contributed by Chloe S. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
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A prayer requiring faith for GOD THROUGH THE PERSON OF JESUS CHRIST TO BE THE ROCK of your SALVATION using caps as emphasis to show the honest reverence for HIS SOVEREIGNTY.
On a balcony of space STEPPED A PURE AND HOLY GOD. IN AWESOME SOLITUDE YOU STOOD ALONE. Not one faint star to give YOU light; just endless darkness, it was blackest night. But somehow in the darkness YOU COULD SEE.
YOU SAW mountains high and lofty, YOU SAW valleys lush and green. YOU SAW babbling brooks, and wildflowers grow, YOU EVEN HEARD a robin sing. Then through YOUR COMPASSION STANDING OUT THERE IN YOUR TOMORROW, YOU SAW forum's visitors their families and friends. 🥰
YOU SAW them as sinners (missing the mark resulting in weaknesses prevailing causing guilt of wrong doing) because there is no intrinsic righteousness in any of us due to Adam’s sin. YOU SAW them as they grew from a baby into adulthood due to YOUR HANDS OF MERCY. 🥰 YOU SAW them pursuing a career path for the purpose of obtaining the gains of the world not realizing that it is a loss compared to what YOU DID on the cross. YOU SAW them working long and laboring hard to receive the grace by justification even though YOU stated, "This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent."(John 6:29 KJV) YOU SAW the unwillingness to accept YOUR PLAN OF SALVATION THROUGH YOUR SON JESUS CHRIST. YOU SAW them living with the guilt of committing crimes to the heart. YOU SAW them enduring personal crisis. YOU SAW the weight of the burden on their hearts with each tribulation. YOU SAW them seeking comfort from the above mentioned topography, ONE OF THE MANY MARVELS YOUR PERFECT HANDS HAVE MADE. 👏👏👏 YOU SAW their worries about tomorrow.
If their hearts were a window that they could look through, oh the pains and scars they would see. What a cruel fate the skin gives as a mask to the inward pain. But the skin couldn’t cover THE SUFFERING YOUR ONE AND ONLY SON BORED on the cross as PAYMENT for all our sins because HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS ALONE HAD THE MERIT TO MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF YOUR HOLINESS. Indeed, ONLY HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS IS SUFFICIENT TO SAVE us from this present evil world as evidenced by Mary's song of praise. "And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour." (Luke 1:46-47 KJV) Awesome thanks to YOUR GREAT PARDON for being easy on the heart. 🥰
They have seen a lot of crazy things done in YOUR NAME. For example, the father of lies futile attempts to make crooked the right ways of the LORD to turn people away from faith in the WORKS OF JESUS CHRIST ALONE. How can anyone bear the thought of his or her life story detracting from the GLORY AND HONOR KNOWN TO BELONG TO CHRIST ALONE? As a consequence, YOU ARE A MYSTERY OF GREAT MYSTERY to them. Despite this conviction, YOU ARE MINDFUL of them as evidenced by the fact that YOUR JUDGEMENT is not speedy, allowing them to pursue the desires of the flesh.
They are aware of hypocrisy in religious assemblies that like to be seen and heard. In addition, secular education teaches that there is no right and wrong, if GOD exists there is no way of relating to HIM, and moral standards shift according to the whims of fashion. Therefore, their minds are conditioned to question everything this world has to offer including “THY POWER THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE DISPLAYED.” They have accepted the heavy burden of dealing with the troubles of this life and seeks to know another way, YOU THE GREAT COMFORTER TO ALL who did receive YOU as their personal SAVIOR. Still, YOU have shown them NEW MERCY every day with each thought they make and each breath they take.
Unfortunately, like the prodigal son, we are all guilty of wandering far from YOU LORD because the negative experiences of our lives tend to build roadblocks to the TRUTH. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST HELP them to identify the way, truth, and eternal life (that is YOU). Since to know and follow your SPIRIT is more exciting than any 007 movie, and YOU DELIGHT MAKING the ordinary into extraordinary. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST MAKE them understand that there is no way around YOUR TRUTH, and that there is something about YOUR NAME. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST HELP them defeat in their minds what is false in YOUR EYES.
LORD GUIDE their thoughts to know that the path of sin is hard on their hearts for the purpose of crying out to YOU to know the joy, peace of having the heavy burden LIFTED by THE GOD OF PEACE I AM, and ANCHOR their souls in THE HAVEN OF REST. In other words, LORD use the storms in their lives to get a hold of them to trust YOU and believe. In truth, YOU ARE THE JOY that seekest them through pain.
LORD HELP their fainting hearts to believe that YOU, who was slain on the cross over 2000 years ago has the POWER TO CHANGE lives today through the INSTANTANEOUS GREAT FAVOR from GOD to the house of Israel made known in believers by YOU to make YOUR NAME EVERLASTING. 🥰 For as the statue liberates the citizens so the cross liberates the soul. ONLY YOU can calm the trouble waters of the mind when one admits to wanting salvation from one’s sinful nature, JESUS IS LORD, and believes in the heart that GOD RAISED HIM from the dead TO LIFT the heavy burden of sin's guilt away from the heart in accordance to YOUR WORD found in Psalm 51:1-10 KJV. 👏👏👏👏👏👏 O, the wonder of it all to experience within the flesh the feeling of a tree being cut back/pruned inorder for it to grow stronger and more beautiful after meditating on the words of said Psalm. 🥰🙌
LORD MAKE them know that ONLY YOUR HOLY SPIRIT, through the experience of a new birth within believers, can prevent the family circle from being broken because THE HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE YOU HAVE GRANTED means a chapter of their lives is decided. Creation sings the rebirth song for them yearly, through YOUR PROMISE of springtime, giving rise to the idea that by the mention of YOUR NAME flowers grow, and the desert blooms again. 🥰
LORD GUIDE their understanding of words to use to come into YOUR PRESENCE with an honest reverence of WHO YOU ARE to experience the beauty that time can't erase YOUR WISDOM resting on their faces. LORD STRENGTHEN their determination to never waiver in efforts to search for YOU because the wages of sin is too high for anyone to pay. Additionally, THE KING OF KINGS is needed in their hearts to learn how to expand their capacity to love for YOU are LOVE in any language. 🥰 Once they learn to speak it with boldness through YOUR WONDERFUL COUNSELING all the world will hear, and know that LOVE is the language of their hearts. So LORD, KEEP KNOCKING on their doors until they let YOU in to know hardships and struggles will end with a GREAT CELEBRATION WITH YOU. 🥰🙌
If one believes faith cannot be forced, YOU WILL GIVE that individual over to the stubborn heart to follow own counsel which will surely fail him or her to the extent that the punishment will last forever found in Psalms 81 NIV. Given this, I pray that YOU WILL MAKE that person see that this feeling is wasted for a world in which we become strangers as we age, gives us thrills instead of peace, aims to solve a problem but creates another, and unrest surges with each passing generation. Shed some light into their broken hearts for YOU ARE THE GREAT JEHOVAH, THE GOD THAT HEALETH thee.
Lastly, LORD when they call on YOU in earnest prayer to come into their hearts to be born again, I pray that YOU WILL GIVE them the blessed assurance of their salvation because nothing breaks YOUR HEART, or tears YOU apart like when they cry from the trials of the devil who comes to slander, falsely accuse, steal, kill & destroy. Only by drawing nearer to YOU LORD will put them on a path to a glorious one way trip winding upward to YOU where pain is not welcome because the heart will never break anymore. For ONLY YOU UNDERSTANDS our tears since YOU LOOK at the heart, while humans look at the flesh.
O LOVE that will not let them go. When they don't have the strength to try, and have cried all they can cry hear their hearts that need YOU more today than yesterday. Many thanks LORD for speaking TRUTH in our lives TO BLESS those who are not offended by THEE. LET YOUR WILL BE DONE because YOUR LOVE ALONE CONQUERS everything by WAITING for them to cease struggling, and finally surrender to YOUR EMBRACE to learn about YOUR LOVE AND PROMISE TO TAKE CARE of your children exquisitely. 🥰 Since... "at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore"... (Psalms 16:11 KJV), and the nail print for them to know YOU by answering the following question. How did CHRIST LOVE people into a relationship with HIM? 🥰
@karlachasteen1068
Isn't It Something
How Those Who Have Already
Fallen Asleep Can Still Be Witnessing
To Everyone?
@stitchy_linn
Amen!
@DHOW398
I guess, one of the Angels retired from Heaven's choir so they have to take Mr. Stephen as a replacement. Big guy with a big talent. RIP Mr. Stephen, thank you for leaving us your talent to enjoy for the years to come.
@stitchy_linn
Nope they just wanted him in their choir bringing a bit of blues quality to their songs. 😊
@dottiewebb508
I loved to hear this man sing and watch him, you could see the Love of Christ in him. Heavens gain our loss. Thank you God for letting us know and hear this man sing songs of Praise
@sarahcrowe9730
Love and miss Stephen Hill. A man of great anointing and faith. So many people loved him and his music.He must be in Heaven’s Choir now.Forever loved.
@jacquelinewright2057
I’m feeling so blessed by this song Mr Hill. Hallelujah 🙌🙌
@marjoriestokke6606
I saw him singinv backup for Woody Wright at a Gaither show.. He reminded.
Me of one of my nephews. Then I found out that he had passed at age 56 at a studio sound check. Since then he has popped up on Utube singing solo at Gaither gatherings. I am addicted to his style of singing beautiful voice. Every song ends with"thank you Lord"
@leonamarshall7551
Such a dynamic Christian man
@jansmeulders7141
Yess....this man is still one of the all time best performers of Bill Gaither.......
I live in far away Suriname....a small former Dutch colony east of Venezuela.............but we know Gaither.....and we know Stephen Hill