Michael W. Smith is the most talented keyboard player in Christian music. Back in the 80′s and 90′s he and his former employer, CCM legend Amy Grant (whom he played keyboards for in the early 80′s). were the genre’s answer to Bernie Taupin and Elton John.
In 1984, Smith released the followup to his Michael W. Smith Project album; the aptly titled Michael W. Smith 2. The album’s opener is the impressively synth-friendly classic A Way. The song is great lyrically and stylistically – a somewhat rare ordeal in contemporary christian music.
The lyrics talk about God meeting us where we are at, rather than us trying to reach him:
Caught in a dream of where I want to be
Wrapped in a web of where I am
I feel a wall between what is and what should be
You find me waiting for an miracle
You hear me praying for a plan
You are the only one prepared to rescue me
Then you take away the distance
Found between the truth and me
& you give a simple reason to my restless rhyme
Woa, hide me in the Heavens
You have held within your hand
And make a way to find a way to soothe my mind
There is a way that might seem right to me
a dim reflection of what’s good
Just an illusion of the best that I can be
But there’s another path you offer me
I wish I always understood
Some way you see right through my thoughts
And all my needs
This is a must-have for your download collection!
