Lyrics
Verse 1
My heart bursts at its banks
Spilling with beauty and goodness
I pour it out as a song to my King
Shaping the rivers into words
Verse 2
What grace pours from Your lips
The sound calls the midnight to morning
The melody turns my winter into spring
I echo it now in my worship
Chorus
Ten thousand strong
You're the fairest of all
Fairest in heaven and earth
Of the children of men
You're the fairest of them
Fairest in heaven and earth
Bridge
Your heart burst at the seams
Flowing with blood and with water
A song of love pouring out from the tree, singing
For the joy set before Me
Verse 3
You ransomed Your bride
On the day that You died
Ascended to heaven in glory
She stands clothed in white
With her head lifted high, singing
"Come and return in Your glory"
Verse 3 (Repeat, corporate)
You ransomed Your bride
On the day that You died
Ascended to heaven in glory
We stand clothed in white
With our voice lifted high, singing
"Come and return in Your glory"
Video
Meaning & Inspiration
"Psalm 45 - Fairest of All" sets a royal wedding psalm directly to music, opening with an image of overflowing praise poured out as a song for a King. Its early verses describe grace flowing from that King's lips with power to turn darkness into morning and winter into spring, applying the psalm's original court imagery to Christ's own voice and presence.
The chorus repeats the psalm's central description almost word for word, naming the King fairest among the children of men, before the bridge shifts from admiration to sacrifice, describing blood and water flowing from a burst heart on a tree endured "for the joy set before Me." That combination, royal beauty and costly suffering, ties the psalm's ancient praise directly to the crucifixion.
The closing verses picture a ransomed bride, clothed in white and calling for the King's return, moving from an individual voice to a shared, corporate one by the song's end. Rooted in a direct musical setting of Scripture, the song functions as worship that connects an Old Testament wedding song to New Testament fulfillment in Christ and his church.
Related Scripture
- Psalm 45:2 Describes the king as fairer than the children of men and full of grace, the verse the song's chorus directly echoes.
- Revelation 19:7-8 Describes the bride of Christ clothed in fine linen, echoed in the song's closing image of the bride clothed in white.