What Can I Do written and performed here by Graham Kendrick and Paul Baloche is taken from the 2006 album Out of the Ordinary.
https://grahamkendrick.co.uk/
The album’s title - ‘Out of the Ordinary’ – hints at the direction taken by the 11 songs; awed worship of God, inspired insight into the nature of faith, fresh revelation of God’s grace, mercy and majesty. Exploding our misconceptions that limit our understanding of God, ‘Out of the Ordinary’ is one of those musical manifestos that marks a bright new dawn for contemporary worship.
Across songs such as ‘Beautiful Mystery’, ‘What Can I Do?’ ‘Creation's King’ and ‘I Love Your Name’ Graham revisits eternal themes of creation, unity and the multi-facets of God, but does so with lyrics that are corporate yet never stale, personal yet never sentimental.
The album carries on in the tradition of his previous two studio albums ‘What Grace’ and ‘Do Something Beautiful’. This time around songs have been co-written with a virtual who’s who of leading worship writers: Dan Wheeler, Stu Garrard and Paul Baloche.
The fingerprints of producer Julian Kindred (the man behind Delirious?’s ‘World Service’) can be clearly spotted across the album’s tracks. Musical arrangements are carefully crafted to back up the emotional range of Graham’s lyrics, while the man’s vocals are delivered with a degree of intensity and sensitivity never quite heard before. Complacency and safety clearly had no place in the studio: on this album Graham has never sounded so good.
Thematically ‘Out of the Ordinary’ draws deep and, according to Graham “several of the songs are story based much like 'Thorns in the Straw' or 'Peter at the Breaking of the Bread' rather than straight 'congregational' songs. The Psalms feature heavily in the lyrical content,” which is unsurprising given Graham’s recent journeys into 'PsalmSurfing'.
What’s abundantly clear is that Graham’s importance as a worship leader right now is not bound up in notions of status or influence. Even more significant than these is the example he sets: that an authentic life lived with authentic worship is a life’s pursuit.
When I see the beauty
Of the sunset's glory
Amazing artistry
Across the evening sky
When I feel the mystery
Of a distant galaxy
It awes and humbles me
To be loved by a God so high
What can I do but thank you
What can I do but give
My life to you
Hallelujah, hallelujah
What can I do but praise you
Every day make everything I do
A hallelujah, a hallelujah
Hallelujah
When I hear the story
Of a God of mercy
Who shared humanity
And suffered by our side
Of the cross they nailed you to
That could not hold you
Now you're making all things new
By the power of your risen life