Fountainview Academy - Ancient Words Lyrics

"Ancient Words" treats Scripture itself as the subject of worship, addressing the Bible directly as a source of life, hope, and guidance carried across generations. The first verse describes the text as something that "resounds with God's own heart," asking that its words continue to instruct and change the singer rather than simply be admired as old literature. The chorus repeats a simple plea — that the ancient words would keep shaping both singer and listener — turning a song about the Bible into an act of submission to it.

The second verse shifts toward cost, recalling that these words came down "through sacrifice" and that "martyr's blood stains each page," a reference to the history of believers who suffered to preserve and transmit the text. That image gives weight to what might otherwise sound like a simple statement of reverence for old writings. The final verse asks for ongoing renewal, that the same words would "cleanse and change us through and through," closing the song where it began: not with information about Scripture, but with a request to be shaped by it.