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Introduction:
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There's a lighthouse on the hillside
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And it overlooks life's sea.
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When I'm tossed you know it sends out a light
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A light that I might see.
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And the light that shines in darkness now will safely lead me home,
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And I know, I know If it wasn't for the lighthouse,
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I know my ship would sail no more.
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Now everybody that lives around us, all around us
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Well they all say tear the lighthouse down, and they say
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We all know the big ships they don't sail by this way anymore,
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There just ain't no use in that poor old thing standing round
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But then my mind goes way on back to that stormy night, when I
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when just in time thank God I saw the light
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Don't you know it was the light from that old lighthouse,
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that stands up there yes it does on the hill.
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And I thank God for The Lighthouse, I owe my life to Him.
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Jesus is The Lighthouse and from the rocks of sin,
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He has shown the light around me, so that I might clearly see.
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If it wasn't for The Lighthouse, Where would this ship be?
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And I thank God for The Lighthouse, I owe my life to Him.
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Jesus is The Lighthouse and from the rocks of sin,
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He has shown the light around me, so that I might clearly see.
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If it wasn't for The Lighthouse, Where would this ship be?