The song expresses defiance in the face of adversity, declaring "I won't back down" from challenges. It references standing one's ground against a world trying to drag one down. The chorus reiterates the refusal to back down or take the easy way out, and the commitment to stand one's ground.

1. Won’t Back Down
Well I Won’t back Down
No I Won’t back Down
You can stand me up
at the gates of hell
But I Won’t back down.

2. Gonna stand my ground
Won’t be turned a round
And I keep this world
from draggin’ me down.
Gonna stand my ground,
And I won’t back down.

3. CHORUS:
Hey Baby
There ain’t no easy way out.
Hey I
will Stand my ground
And I won’t back down.
.

4. Well I
know what’s right
I got Just one life.
In a world that keeps on
pushin’ me around
Gonna Stand my ground
And I won’t back down.

5. CHORUS:
Hey Baby
There ain’t no easy way out.
Hey I
will Stand my ground
And I won’t back down.
.

6. CHORUS:
Hey Baby
There ain’t no easy way out.
Hey I
Won’t back down.
.

7. FINAL CHORUS:
Hey Baby
There ain’t no easy way out.
Hey I
will Stand my ground
And I won’t back down,
and I won’t back down.

8. love is here
come to the water, you who thirst
and you’ll thirst no more.
come to the Father,
you who work
and you’ll work no more.

9. and all you who
labor in vain,
and to the broken
and shamed

10. love is here,
love is now
love is pouring
from his hands
and from his brow.

11. love is near, it satisfies,
streams of mercy
flowing from his side,
‘cause love is here.

12. come to the treasure,
you who search
and you’ll search no more.
come to the lover,
you who want
and you’ll want no more.

13. and all you who
labor in vain,
and to the broken
and shamed

14. love is here,
love is now
love is pouring
from his hands
and from his brow.

15. love is near, it satisfies,
streams of mercy
flowing from his side
‘cause love is here.

16. and to the bruised and fallen,
captive bound and broken hearted
he is the Lord
he is the Lord
yeah

17. by his stripes he’s paid all ransom
from his wounds
we drink salvation
he is the Lord
he is the Lord

18. love is here,
love is now
love is pouring
from his hands
and from his brow.

19. love is near, it satisfies,
streams of mercy
flowing from his side
streams of mercy
flowing from his side
‘cause love is near.

20. OCEANS FROM
------Seventh Day Slumber

21. And I’m amazed by
You. Cause You’re
never far away

22. And all that I’ve been
through, Your love has
never changed

23. CHORUS:
YOU MAKE OCEANS FROM
THE RAIN
BREATHING LIFE INTO THIS
PLACE
AND I WILL DROWN INSIDE
YOUR LOVE
UNTIL I SEE YOUR PERFECT
FACE

24. And nothing I’ve acquired
means anything at all
Cause you’re everything I
needed

25. CHORUS:
YOU MAKE OCEANS FROM
THE RAIN
BREATHING LIFE INTO THIS
PLACE
AND I WILL DROWN INSIDE
YOUR LOVE
UNTIL I SEE YOUR PERFECT
FACE

26. AND I THANK YOU LORD
(REPEAT 4 TIMES)

27. CHORUS:
YOU MAKE OCEANS FROM
THE RAIN
BREATHING LIFE INTO THIS
PLACE
AND I WILL DROWN INSIDE
YOUR LOVE
UNTIL I SEE YOUR PERFECT
FACE

28. The blood of Jesus
can wash your pain