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Casting Crowns is a Grammy Award and Dove Award winning Contemporary Christian/Christian Rock band. Casting Crowns was started in 1999 by youth pastor Mark Hall at First Baptist Church in Downtown Daytona Beach, Florida as part of a youth group. He now serves as a lead vocalist. Later they moved to Stockbridge, Georgia and more members joined creating the band now known as Casting Crowns. Some members of the band currently work as ministers for Eagles Landing First Baptist Church in Stockbridge, Georgia.
Christian rock group Casting Crowns began as a student worship band in Daytona Beach, FL, in 1999. Led by singer, songwriter, and youth pastor Mark Hall, the group initially included guitarists Juan DeVevo and Hector Cervantes and violinist Melodee DeVevo. The group relocated to Stockbridge, GA, in 2001, adding Chris Huffman on bass, Megan Garrett on keyboards and accordion, and drummer Andy Williams. This augmented version of Casting Crowns released two independent albums on CD, both of which were well received in the Atlanta area. Both independent albums were efforts on the part of Mark Hall and the rest of the group as outreach projects for youth in the area. The group won the GMA regional songwriters competition at Palm Beach Atlantic University, West Palm Beach, Florida in both the "Best Song" and the "Best Artist" categories in 2004. Although the group was not searching for a record label, one of the group's albums found its way into the hands of Mark Miller, lead singer for country group Sawyer Brown, who was struck by Casting Crowns' driving pop/rock style and Hall's vocal delivery of his hard-hitting but devout songs. Miller signed Casting Crowns to his fledgling Beach Street Records, a division of Reunion Records with distribution by the Provident Label Group, making Casting Crowns the first artist signed to Beach Street Records.
Keeps the pills on her shelf
In the mirror she tells herself
„Hey, some were born to sing the blues”
On the street are glances
In the bus among prying eyes
Out here there is nowhere to hide
This city she holds dear
Thinking back she counts the years
And looks at the lines on her hands
Come on Audrey please don’t go
This world can disappoint, I know
There’s something more out there for one like you
You have come so far with hopes to find
And all the things you left behind
’cause this ain’t Southern California anymore
Shoebox with old photos
Tells stories only she knows
Did she do something wrong along the way?
’cause no one gets this girl
There’s no sweetness left
In this screwed up world
Just life, and another hair turns grey
Come on Audrey please don’t go
This world can disappoint, I know
There’s something more out there for one like you
You have come so far with hopes to find
And all the things you left behind
’cause this ain’t upstate New York anymore
I don’t want to see
Settle for less and unhappy
I know that somewhere there’s someone for you
There’s someone for everyone
Hang on Audrey one more day
I’ll wait for you so hang on Audrey
Hang on Audrey one more day