I am holding to the joy of my salvation   I am glad to have a life that always grows   And if the word of God is any indication   I am doing even better than I know   I am doing even better than I know      There's a joy that even people of the world find   In every good and perfect gift the father sends   So I thank the lord that I was born the first time   But I thank him more that I was born again   Oh, I thank him more that I was born again      I am up   Like the sun is up   I can feel my life on a rise   I am up   Like the stars at night   I get up on bein' alive      I am up   Like the lord is up   And my life is filled with his life   I was freed and I am saved   I am up   I am up      There are times life is so fine I can't contain it   Everywhere I look I see what God had done   And I don't have to work and worry to sustain it   When I walk with God his joy will always come   When I walk with God his joy will always come      I am up   Like the sun is up   I can feel my life on a rise   I am up   Like the stars at night   I get up on bein' alive      I am up   Like the lord is up   And my life is filled with his life   I was freed and I am saved   I am up   I am up