Lyrics
Verse 1
What is buried, You can raise again
What is lifeless, You'll breathe life within
What seems over to You, it's not the end
There's nothing that You cannot do
I'm ready, God, to see You move
Chorus
There's resurrection power
Right here, it's breaking out
Let dead things come to life
Let dry bones come alive
The One who empties graves
Is here to do the same
Let dead things come to life
Let dry bones come alive
Refrain
Come alive, come alive
Let dead things come to life
Come alive, come alive
Let dry bones come alive
Verse 2
Out of darkness, You've brought victory
Tore the veil and made a way for me
Now I'm standing with the risen King
Staring at an empty tomb
'Coz Jesus, You're the living proof
There's nothing that You cannot do
I'm ready, God, to see You move
Chorus (Repeat)
Refrain (Repeat x2)
Bridge 1
I'm running out of the grave
I'm running out of the grave
Sickness, get out of my way
'Coz there's healing, there's healing here
(Oh yes, there is)
I'm running out of the grave
I'm running out of the grave
(Stronghold, you gotta move)
Stronghold, it's time that you break
'Coz there's freedom, there's freedom here
I'm running out of the grave
I'm running out of the grave
Sickness, get out of my way
'Coz there's healing, there's healing here
(Oh, there's healing here)
I'm running out of the grave
I'm running out of the grave
Stronghold, it's time that you break
'Coz there's freedom, there's freedom here
Refrain (Repeat x2)
Chorus (Repeat)
Refrain (Repeat x2)
Instrumental
Oh, You ready to run out of that grave?
You ready to get out to that grave?
Bridge 1 (Repeat)
Bridge 2 (Repeat x4)
I'm dancing out of the grave
I'm dancing out of the grave
I'm dancing out of the grave
'Coz there's freedom, there's freedom here
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Meaning & Inspiration
"Come Alive (Resurrection Power)" opens by naming what seems permanently lost, buried, lifeless, apparently over, before insisting that none of it marks a true ending for the one addressed. That opening list of apparent finality, immediately contradicted, frames the entire song around reversal rather than steady comfort.
Its chorus borrows directly from a well-known prophetic image, dry bones called to come alive, naming the same resurrection power that emptied one grave as available to act again in the present. Pairing that ancient image with a second verse describing an empty tomb as living proof grounds the song's confidence in a specific, remembered historical claim.
Rooted in contemporary worship's declarative anthem style, the song functions as an extended invitation for resurrection power to act on sickness and bondage, its repeated bridges naming healing and freedom as present realities rather than future hopes, closing in continued, physical declarations of running and dancing free from the grave.
Related Scripture
- Ezekiel 37:4-5 Describes dry bones being commanded to live, directly echoed in the song's repeated call for dry bones to come alive.
- John 20:6-8 Describes the empty tomb as evidence of the resurrection, echoed in the song's description of standing before an empty tomb as living proof.