Steven Curtis Chapman, “Something Beautiful”

Contemporary Christian legend Steven Curtis Chapman has released Something Beautiful as the second single off his latest release, The Glorious Unfolding. After the decent performance of the first two singles, including a Top 10 finish for the carrier Love Take Me Over and a middling Top 20-ish finish, to my knowledge, for The Glorious Unfolding, he’s released what is arguably the best track on the album.

Something Beautiful hearkens back to some of Chapman’s best pop/rock confections, including the irresistible Do Everything and the anthemic Yours. With Something Beautiful, Chapman revisits the redemptive power of God’s love, and reveals how He can transform our otherwise difficult and ugly situations into “something beautiful,” something glorifying to His Name and fully indicative of His power. Packaged in a delightfully irresistible chorus and stunning orchestral arrangements–something at which Chapman has gotten very good for his past two albums–to highlight his increasingly solid stature as one of Contemporary Christian music’s most revered yet relevant statesmen, Something Beautiful deserves to be heard by many and honored justifiably so as Chapman’s latest Top 10 hit.

SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL Lyrics
Steven Curtis Chapman

I see you sitting over there with your head in your hands
And the mess life’s made of your best laid plans
You really want to shake your fist
But you don’t know who to blame
Well you can blame yourself or the man upstairs
Or the guy on the screen who says he cares
But all the shame and the blame won’t change a thing
What’s done is done
But grace has just begun

And God’s says
I’m gonna turn it into something different
I’m gonna turn it into something good
I’m gonna take all the broken pieces
And make something beautiful like only I could
So put it all in the hands of the Father
Give it up, give it all over to
The only one who can turn it into
Something beautiful
Something really beautiful

We know the world got broke when it took the fall
And here we are living in the middle of it all
Longing, waiting for the day when everything’s restored
But the best of the beauty that we get to SEE
While we’re living down here in this “yet to be”
Is to watch God take the most broken things
And to hear Him say,
“When I get through, you’re gonna be amazed”

‘Cause I’m gonna turn it into something different
I’m gonna turn it into something good
I’m gonna take all the broken pieces
And make something beautiful like only I could
So put it all in the hands of the Father
Give it up, give it all over to
The only one who can turn it into

Something beautiful
Something beautiful
Something beautiful
Put all the pieces in His hands
And watch Him turn it into something beautiful

God’s gonna turn it into something different
He’s gonna turn it into something good
He’s gonna take all the broken pieces
And make something beautiful like only He could
So put it all in the hands of the Father
Give it up, give it all over to
The only one who can turn it into
Something beautiful
Something really beautiful
Something beautiful
Something really beautiful

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