I Can Only Imagine Page #7

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that saved me through a time.

You know how music does that?

See I was, um...

I was dealing with loss, with pain.

And I heard this song,

and it just blew my soul wide open.

It lifted me up. It rescued me.

And you're the first ones to ever hear it.

This is "I Can Only Imagine."

Bart, would you come up here, please?

Ladies and gentlemen,

the writer of the song is here tonight,

and I want y'all to meet him.

Bart, come on up.

I'm not joking, come on up!

It's not just the song that's special.

It's you.

And this story is not my story.

It's yours.

And this moment,

it doesn't belong to me.

It belongs to you.

Take it.

Bart Millard wrote this song,

this beautiful song,

and want him to be the one

to sing it for y'all tonight

for the first time ever.

Bart?

This is for my dad.

I can only imagine

What it will be like

When I walk

By Your side

I can only imagine

What my eyes will see

When Your face

Is before me

I can only imagine

I can only imagine

Surrounded by Your glory

What will my heart feel?

Will I dance for You, Jesus

Or in awe of You be still?

Will I stand in Your presence

Or to my knees will I fall?

Will I sing Hallelujah?

Will I be able to speak at all?

I can only imagine

I can only imagine

I can only imagine

When that day comes

And I find myself

Standing in the sun

I can only imagine

When all I will do

Is forever

Forever worship You

I can only imagine, yeah

I can only imagine

Surrounded by Your glory

What will my heart feel?

Will I dance for You, Jesus

Or in awe of You be still?

Will I stand in Your presence

Or to my knees will I fall?

Will I sing Hallelujah?

Will I be able to speak at all?

I can only imagine

Yeah

I can only imagine

Yeah

Surrounded by Your glory

What will my heart feel?

Will I dance for You, Jesus

Or in awe of You be still?

Will I stand in Your presence

Or to my knees will I fall?

Will I sing Hallelujah?

Will I be able to speak at all?

I can only imagine

Yeah

I can only imagine

Yeah, yeah

I can only imagine

Yeah, yeah

I can only imagine

Yeah

I can only imagine

I can only imagine

When all I will do

Is forever

Forever worship You

I can only imagine

Wasn't that great?

Bart and his band MercyMe will be

releasing that song as their first single,

and I want all y'all to keep

an eye out for it, okay?

Shannon!

It's always been you.

I've always loved you.

I know.

Excuse me, sir.

I hate to be rude.

This is an emergency.

I-I, I promise.

I promise, 'Kay?

Come on, Jim.

Hello?

Hey, stop the truck.

What?

You have to stop the truck.

Amy's giving the song back to us.

She's giving us Imagine.

Imagine is going out as our first single.

Stop the truck!

Why?

Amy's giving it back!

Stop staring at me!

Stop the truck!

Here's a new song

for you on Magic 104.5.

Uh, guys?

Guess who's on the radio.

Hey, can we give this a try?

Here's a brand-new song

from a brand-new band.

In this week of the countdown

in the number one slot...

Have you heard this song?

This song's gonna blow you away.

This song already means

so much to so many people.

This is MercyMe,

it's called "I Can Only Imagine."

It's the number one

Christian song in America,

now charting on country

and pop charts as well.

I love this song.

This is MercyMe on the Delilah Show.

So you know this

is not a religious station,

and we are not religious people,

not by a long shot.

But believe it or not,

this is the number one

most requested song on the station.

It's "I Can Only Imagine" by MercyMe.

To sing his great song,

"Can Only Imagine,"

please welcome Bart.

Bart!

If anybody I went to

high school with is listening,

I made it!

"I Can Only Imagine," the song,

was written after my father passed away

with cancer many years ago.

He was abusive most of my... my life.

If he had a bad day, he took it out on me.

And he was diagnosed with cancer

when I was in high school.

I saw Jesus change him completely.

He went from a monster to being a man,

that was desperately

and passionately in love with Jesus.

And it kind of set me on

this warpath for the Gospel.

'Cause if the Gospel

can change that dude,

the Gospel can change anybody,

you know?

I can only imagine

What it will be like

When I walk

By Your side

I can only imagine

What my eyes will see

When Your face

Is before me

I can only imagine

I can only imagine

Surrounded by Your glory

What will my heart feel?

Will I dance for You, Jesus

Or in awe of You be still?

Will I stand in Your presence

Or to my knees will I fall?

Will I sing Hallelujah?

Will I be able to speak at all?

I can only imagine

I can only imagine

When that day comes

And I find myself

Standing in the sun

I can only imagine

When all I will do

Is forever

Forever worship You

I can only imagine

I can only imagine

Surrounded by Your glory

What will my heart feel?

Will I dance for You, Jesus

Or in awe of You be still?

Will I stand in Your presence

Or to my knees will I fall?

Will I sing Hallelujah?

Will I be able to speak at all?

I can only imagine

I can only imagine

Yeah, yeah

Surrounded by Your glory

What will my heart feel?

Will I dance for You, Jesus

Or in awe of You be still?

Will I stand in Your presence

Or to my knees will I fall?

Will I sing Hallelujah?

Will I be able to speak at all?

I can only imagine

Hey, yeah

I can only imagine

Yeah, yeah

I can only imagine

Ooh, whoa

I can only imagine

I can only imagine

When all I will do

Is forever

Forever worship You

Whoa

Whoa

I can only imagine

Whoa

Whoa

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