come you weary travelers heavy laiden from your toil come you who fight the ground the religion of your soil you can bend your body backwards you can wrestle any storm but your muscles can t prevail what grace preforms cause i am what you re not so lay your burdens down my love yeah i am what you re not so take my light load and give me your heavy lot come you lost and broken those beaten up by law come you never resting curl up with my light call you can sleep in my surrender you can doze in my relief just sell all your good works and follow after me cause i am what you re not so lay your burdens down my love yeah i am what you re not so take my light load and give me your heavy lot come you weary strong men come you tired giants come you weakened warriors come you worn golaiths come you christened christians incriminated by the lists you listen to that make you feel unlisted in the lamb s comprehensive novelistic epic your souls feel fatalistic to or if i could put it more simplistically this message is for you who feel your salvation is based on your good and bad deeds i m calling to these sunday champions you know those who try to earn what has already been granted them those who try to make amends where there s already been intercession those who try to pray read and attend themselves up into my heavens i m talkin to those who think their salvation is based on their successes when the fact is if you are in christ jesus sin and death have lost their claim to you and there can be no repossession so before you start to think that your next good deed will make me pleased with you remember that while you were my enemy and before you were anything i was already in love with you so come you good works slaves come lay down your ways though you stood not a chance come in in my good news dance cause i am what you re not so lay your burdens down my love yeah i am what you re not so take my light load and give me your heavy lot 