Why Did You Choose Me

Intro
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What do I want?  Where do I go?
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I want what you want but I don’t know
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What is your plan? Where is your hand?
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Ensemble: (What do you want?) (What do you want)
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What do you want from me?

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I’m trying to find you. I am listening for your voice
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Lord, speak to me, I long to hear you. I’m listening
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Maybe I’m too young and lowly. Maybe I don’t have the words
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Maybe it could be someone else? Why did you choose me?

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I try to follow every rule you gave to me
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I do what my parents ask of me
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I never talk back or yell or rebel but you’re asking me to
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march into hell but I can’t tell whether I will win or lose or
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die or try to restore what our country once was before the
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oppressors enslaved us
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 oh no. Oh Lord….why did you choose me?
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Why did you choose me?
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When I fall and sin I turn to you to begin again and listen
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 to your voice and make the choice to follow You once
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more even when it feels like a chore even when I have
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nothing more to give You forgive me for my trespasses
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and ask me to forgive those who trespass against me
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Lord who do You want me to be?
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Yet why should I try to leave my home, be alone, put
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myself in danger like Your Son in a manger,
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 so vulnerable, like a lamb led to slaughter, am I your
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Am I still your daughter? Is this what you want for me?
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Is this really your will, still? Or a delusion an illusion
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 a hope to gain glory and fame so they remember my
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Name? Will they remember Your name?
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Your name. Oh Lord. Jesus
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Is the ancient prophecy true or is it false?
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 Is it true that one woman would give France away.
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And then another, a virgin, a peasant from the borders of Lorraine,
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is it insane to believe she would come and
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Save the day to free France and perhaps set the path for
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Charles to be crowned king and all the people will be singing and ringing
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they will be cheering and saying my name
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 I must be insane. Oh no. Oh Lord
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Why did you choose me?
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Why did you choose me?