This song is about how Jesus from the Bible came to me when my life was a mess, and how I also went to him when all his other friends abandoned him. I won’t turn away from him if no one cares, believes me, or has any interest hearing this. Me and Jesus Christ are real best friends. Everybody else is nice, but nobody can meet my needs the way that Jesus does.

We each experienced this as “I am a man in real trouble. The Holy Spirit just showed up to save me from this horrible demise.”

I hope somebody takes the time to realize this isn’t just a song. It is my real story. The only one I care about preserving.

Someone said, “Oh, he’s such an artist.” Sure. But this is real too. Not just a song. Both of us use these exact same lyrics to share what we each went through in our two separate lives. That’s wild, right?

Enjoy!

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LYRICS

You can go to the garden alone. Meet him out there away from the rose. You can tell him your thoughts about women and men. Hear him laugh as he tells you the truth, and then you can go to the garden alone. You will never come back on your own

Well, they led me to the garden alone. They said this is the garden you own. All the love there inside is the love you deserve. All the people inside are the ones you will serve. It was the garden of sorrow and woe. There was no love inside there to know.

I fell asleep in the garden alone
I awoke to find love in my home 

So I weeded my garden alone. Now I’m staying; oh, why should I go? If they tell me this is love, who am I to say no? I will stay for this love. It’s the love that I know. I won’t turn from the love of my soul. I will not leave love here all alone.

Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

— 1 Corinthians 3:8

This song is a testimony about the free gift of salvation we have through Jesus Christ our Lord, and how that gift was delivered to me through the hand of his faithful servant, my worship leader.

I am forever changed because of her faithfulness to God. I just can’t stop testifying to this.

This faithful witness saved my soul and gave me hope when my life was a sure disaster. So of course I’m going to sing about it! Why wouldn’t I?

This is on the up and up. I testify to Jesus Christ, who is exalted over everything. I also honor who he chose to preach the gospel to me.

Far out on the road, just a man with no sense of my home 
Then she calls, “come over”
The thought of it is giving me life again 

I needed someone to forgive me
She needed someone she could forgive 
So Pasadena sure gives me a reason to live 

When I didn’t know I could go back and live my life over again 
She let me atone, so now I’m living this one for my love

Mama, when I needed you, you raised me up, made me like new
My father said, you know my love always tells you the truth