One Touch

One touch can change everything (one touch),
Reach me where the hurting hides.
Come and find the wound I buried —
One touch, and my spirit knows.

I tried the doctor's waiting room,
I tried the bottle and the phone,
Tried to fill the quiet places
With anything but You alone.
But the ache stayed underneath it,
Down where the money couldn't reach.
So I press through all the noise
Like a woman through a crowd,
Just to brush the edge of mercy,
Just to touch the healing now.

I don't need the whole parade (no),
I don't need the crowd to see —
Just one hem within my reach:

One touch, and I can breathe again (one touch),
And the long night finds its end.
Your hands on the wound I hid so long —
One touch can change everything.

Reach the place that never healed,
Watch the scar begin to close.

I have carried this in silence
Longer than I'd like to say,
Smiled on Sunday, cried on Monday,
Kept the oldest part away.
But the hem is finally in reach,
And the long fear starts to lift;
Where I lay it in Your hands,
Something holy overflows.
Twelve long years of paying doctors,
Gone the moment that I chose.

If I could just get near enough
To the edge of who You are,
I believe that power leaves You
And it finds me where I stand.
The hands that flung the galaxies
Come and rest upon my tears —
All the medicine and money
Couldn't do what love does here.

Reach me, reach me,
Heal the years that could not mend me.
Lay Your hands on me right now,
Make me whole and make me strong.

One touch, and I can breathe again (one touch),
And the long night finds its end.
Your hands on the wound I hid so long —
One touch can change everything.

One touch — and the hurting lets me go,
Your hand still on my shoulder,
One touch can change everything.