Tasha Cobbs Leonard - Move (Out of The Way) Lyrics
Lyrics
God, Your people cry out today
That we want to get out of the way, we
We cry out with a heart of repentance
That we're moving out of Your way
We tried so many other ways
We just want it Your way, oh my God
We just want it Your way, hmm
We just want it Your way
There's no other way (Yes, Lord)
So we throw away our agendas
We lay aside all of our pride
With a heart of repentance
We are moving out the way
We are moving out Your way
Throw away our agendas
That's what we're doing
Lay aside all of our pride
With a heart of (With a heart of repentance)
We are moving (We are moving out the way)
Getting out of Your way (We are moving out Your way)
Say it again, say throw away (Throw away our agendas)
God, we lay aside our pride (Lay aside all of our pride)
With a heart of repentance (With a heart of repentance)
We're moving out the way (We are moving out the way)
We're moving out the way
We're moving out the way (We are moving out Your way)
Oh-oh, oh-oh
Throw away (Throw away our agendas)
Oh, somebody claim that today
Say we lay aside all of our pride (Lay aside all of our pride)
With a heart of (With a heart of repentance)
Come on, keep it right there
Say with a heart of repentance (With a heart of repentance)
We're offering up our hearts to You
Say with a heart of repentance (With a heart of repentance)
We're not ashamed to say it, we wanna do it Your way
With a heart of repentance (With a heart of repentance)
With a heart of repentance (With a heart of repentance)
You say if my people who are called by my name (With a heart of repentance)
Will humble themselves, will humble themselves, will humble themselves
With a heart of repentance (With a heart of repentance)
We are, we are, moving out the way (We are moving out the way)
Oh, we are (We are moving out Your way)
One more time, sing we are moving (We are moving out the way)
Moving out Your way
We are (We are moving out Your way)
'Cause all we want is You to move, yeah yeah yeah
All we want is You to move
It's real simple, somebody pray that, say
All we want is You to move, yeah
All we want is You to move
That's all we want today
All we want (All we want is You to move)
Lord, all we want (All we want is You to move)
When You move peace comes in
All we want (All we want is You to move)
When You move joy comes in
All we want, yea (All we want is You to move)
'Cause when You move love comes in
All we want (All we want is You to move)
When You move, we find justice
All we want (All we want is You to move)
Sing all we want is You to move (All we want is You to move)
All we want, all we want (All we want is You to move)
So let it fall, let it fall, let it fall
Let Your glory fall
Let it fall, let it fall, let it fall
Let Your glory fall
Let Your glory fall, oh (Yes, Lord)
Let Your glory fall
We want the weight of Your glory (Yes, Lord)
We want the weight of Your glory
We want the weight of Your glory
We want the weight of Your glory
Coming our way, anything that's not like You
All we want is You
All we want is You to move
We're moving out Your way
We're moving out Your way
'Cause it's not about us
'Cause it's not about us
No, it's not about us
It's all about You
And we're moving out Your way
'Cause all we want is You to move (Yes, Lord, it's all we want)
All we want is You to move
We tried so many other moves
All we want is You to move
We will move when You move (Yes, Lord)
Oh my God
Just want to be in sync with You
Video
Move (Out Of The Way)
Meaning & Inspiration
As an editor, my first instinct is to take a red pen to this. Tasha Cobbs Leonard leans heavily into the repetition that characterizes much of modern corporate worship, and frankly, some of these lines feel like filler—the kind of looping that happens when the room is waiting for a crescendo rather than parsing a thought. We could lose half the chorus and the point would survive.
But then, I find the line that stops the clock: “We tried so many other ways.”
There is a quiet, brutal admission in that line. It’s not just a religious sentiment; it’s an acknowledgement of human exhaustion. We exhaust our intellect, our social capital, and our management strategies before we ever truly step aside. Most of the time, "moving out of the way" is something we say to sound pious, but Leonard hits on a tension here: we don’t move out of the way until we are completely out of options. We treat God as a consultant for our own agendas until we finally realize our agendas are the friction preventing the very thing we’re praying for.
It echoes 2 Chronicles 7:14, but without the sterile, Sunday-school distance. It feels less like a theological requirement and more like a surrender of the ego. The "Power Line" of this entire track is: “We tried so many other ways.”
It works because it anchors the song in reality. It strips away the pretense of "getting it right" on the first try. It suggests that our desire for God’s move is preceded by a long, frustrating history of trying to force our own. It’s the sound of someone letting go of the steering wheel after realizing the car hasn't been moving forward for years.
When the song transitions into “All we want is You to move,” the repetition actually starts to function differently. It stops feeling like a rhythmic placeholder and starts feeling like a chant of desperation. By the time she reaches the end, it’s not a request for a spiritual experience; it’s a plea for displacement. “When You move, peace comes in / When You move, joy comes in.”
She isn’t asking God to bless our work. She is asking God to replace our work with His presence.
This isn’t a polished, tidy track. It’s messy, repetitive, and occasionally over-extended. But perhaps that’s the point. Prayer is rarely a tidy affair. Sometimes we have to repeat ourselves because we haven't quite convinced our own hearts to stay out of the way yet. You listen to this, and you realize that "moving out the way" isn't a one-time decision. It’s a rhythmic, agonizing process of constantly stepping back so something other than our own ambition can take the lead. It leaves you feeling like the work is far from finished—which is exactly where a song like this should leave you.