Lyrics
Verse 1
When it feels like the dark
Lingers longer than the night
When the shadows feel like giants
Are You chasing me down
Verse 2
Tell me where could I run
From Your light
Where could I hide
Hemmed within Your precious thoughts
There's no hiding from Your love
Chorus 1
Highs and lows
Lord You're with me either way it goes
Should I rise or should I fall
Even so
Lord Your mercy is an even flow
You're too good to let me go
Verse 3
Should I dance on the heights
Or make my bed among the depths
Your mercy waits at every end
Like You planned it from the start
Verse 4
Should the dawn come with wings
Or find me far-side of the sea
There Your hand still fastens me
Ever closer to Your heart
Chorus 2
Highs and lows
Lord You're with me either way it goes
Should I rise or should I fall
Even so
Lord Your mercy is an even flow
Should I rise or should I fall
You are faithful through it all
You're too good to let me go
Chorus 3
Highs and lows
You surround me either way it goes
Should I rise or should I fall
Lord You're with me through it all
Highs and lows
In the rhythms of Your grace I know
Should I rise or should I fall
You are faithful through it all
And You're too good to let me go
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Meaning & Inspiration
"Highs and Lows" opens by naming a specific fear, darkness that lingers longer than night itself, shadows that feel like pursuing giants, before turning that fear into a direct question addressed to God. That honest admission of feeling chased frames the entire song's confidence as response to real anxiety rather than untested optimism.
Its verses closely paraphrase a well-known psalm about inescapable presence, asking where one could run or hide before answering that no such place exists outside God's reach. A later verse extends that same confidence to opposite extremes, dancing on heights or lying among depths, naming mercy as present at both ends rather than only in comfortable middle ground.
Rooted in contemporary worship's youth anthem tradition, the song functions as an extended declaration that God's presence and mercy remain constant regardless of circumstance, its repeated chorus naming highs and lows together as equally covered by a faithfulness too good to ever let go.
Related Scripture
- Psalm 139:7-10 Describes the impossibility of fleeing God's presence, directly echoed in the song's verses about running or hiding.
- Lamentations 3:22-23 Describes God's mercies as new and unfailing, echoed in the song's description of mercy as an even, constant flow.