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My Eyes Are Ever on You

"Teach me Your paths - I will follow"

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Lyrics

My eyes are ever on you, O Lord
My eyes are ever on you, my Lord

To You, O Lord, I lift up my soul
In You, O God, I trust
Show me Your ways, teach me Your paths
I will follow

Every day, Lord, as I pray, Lord
I'll draw close to You
Show me Your truths, teach me Your paths
I will follow

The earth and the sky
Were colored anew
The day that my eyes found You

About this song

This was the first Christian song I ever wrote and it remains a favorite. It's a profession of faith and a promise of obedience.

The song is much simpler than the psalm on which the lyrics are based. Psalm 25 is thought to be (broadly speaking) the prayers of the exiles in Babylon, i.e. the words of people in danger in the hands of their enemies. As is often the case, however, the words still have relevance in today's world.

Chords and stuff

I wrote this song in A but soon moved up a couple frets and did it in B. I have chord charts in both A [click] and B [click]. More recently, I've moved up another half-step to the key of C.

The song is in 6/8 or a fast 3/4. When I play this alone on the guitar, I have to take care not to over-emphasize the "and of 2" with an upstroke of my pick, obscuring the "three" feel.

The first chord of the chorus is a tad unusual - it's essentially a B minor with an A in the bass (in the key of A) but there's also an E stuck in there. The E functions, I think, as the fifth of the bass note (definitely not as a suspended 4th since the (minor) third is present and essential) and provides a nice "open tuning" feel. Inconclusive theory talk aside, it's played on a guitar with an A minor shape moved two frets higher.