Wood and Nails - The Porter's Gate - Lyrics

Wood and Nails
By Keith Watts, Isaac Wardell, and Madison Cunningham
© 2017 Hymns From the Porter's Gate (ASCAP)
As sung by Audrey Assad and Josh Garrels
on the album “Work Songs”

I do not own the rights to the music. Please support the artists by buying the song or the album.

All video copyright 2017 by Robert J. DeGray. A big thank-you to Holiday Acres Tree Farm in Manvel, TX for the use of the venue.

[Antjammat]

This song literally changed my life after four years of much suffering... Thank you!

[imagomonkei]

This is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.

[p.s.]

Timely..for the season of Lent..so full of beautiful lyrics ♥ words to reflect on..thanks and may you continue to bring more beautiful music 🎶 🎵 ❤

[elizabethrohr]

Absolutely Beautiful!!! Thank you for making this wonderful lyric video!!! Thank you for sharing your God-given gifts!!!

[taraanderson]

I can't get over this song. So hauntingly beautiful!

[cristinacastro]

What a beautiful song❤
She is very talented, God bless you

[uselessunicorn]

I love it my school uses it in the Lenten

[joannachew]

O humble carpenter, down on Your hands and knees
Look on Your handiwork and build a house
So You may dwell in me
So You may dwell in me
The work was done with nothing but
Wood and nails in Your scar-borne hands
O show me how to work and praise
Trusting that I am Your instrument
O loving laborer with the sweat upon Your face
Oh, build a table that I may too may join You
In the Father's place
Oh, in the Father's place
The work was done with nothing but
Wood and nails in Your scar-borne hands
O show me how to work and praise
Trusting that I am Your instrument
The kingdom's come and built upon
Wood and nails gripped with joyfulness
So send me out, within Your ways
Knowing that the task is finished
The dead will rise and give You praise
Wood and nails will not hold them down
These wooden tombs, we'll break them soon
And fashion them into flower beds
The curse is done, the battle won
Swords bent down into plowshares
Your scar-borne hands, we'll join with them
Serving at the table You've prepared
O humble carpenter
Love this song…

[maxpowers]

At 2:22 they nail a screw in instead of a nail!