The heart
The heart of the song is awe and lifted praise. It gives that posture a simple musical home so the listener can enter the theme without needing a long explanation.
Gathered Praise Worship song
Only You Are Holy
Only You Are Holy sits within the Holy Is the Lord EP as a closing exaltation. It carries holiness through awe and lifted praise, giving listeners a focused way to pray, reflect and respond in worship.
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- Awe and lifted praise
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Purpose
Why this song exists.
Only You Are Holy exists to give listeners and gathered worshippers a clear way into holiness. The finale gathers the holiness theme into the EP's broadest congregational declaration of God's worthiness.
The song does not try to explain every part of the EP at once. It holds one worship task with care, giving the listener language that can be sung honestly in a service, during prayer, or in the quiet of ordinary life.
Meaning
What the song carries.
At its heart, the song treats holiness as something to be received before it is performed. The focus is not on musical display, but on helping attention turn towards Jesus with language that feels plain, prayerful and singable.
The title gives the song its centre of gravity. Around that centre, the words and movement of the song hold awe and lifted praise, making room for personal devotion and shared congregational response.
The heart behind it
A focused worship response within a wider EP journey.
The finale gathers the holiness theme into the EP's broadest congregational declaration of God's worthiness.
The reason
The song is placed where it is because the EP needs this particular voice in the journey. As a closing exaltation, it helps shape how the wider release is heard and received.
The purpose
The purpose is worship: words and melody that can carry prayer, reflection and response towards Jesus in a way that remains clear and congregational.
In the EP arc
Where the song sits.
Only You Are Holy closes the EP by gathering the journey into a final worship response. It is shaped to leave the listener with a settled sense of where the release has been leading.
Within Holy Is the Lord, the song belongs to a wider five-song journey. It stands on its own, but it also helps the EP move with purpose from the opening posture to the final response.
For listening and worship
How the song serves.
For everyday listening, the song offers worship language for moments when holiness needs to be remembered and sung, not merely understood.
For churches and worship leaders, it is shaped as a closing exaltation: clear in focus, connected to the wider EP, and intended to serve gathered voices as well as personal prayer.
Lyrics
Only You Are Holy lyrics.
Read and reflect on the full lyric in its sung shape, following the repeated choruses, bridges and final response as the song unfolds.
Verse 1
There is no one like You, Jesus None beside You on the throne All the glory of the heavens Finds its fullness in Your name You are worthy through the ages You are constant, You are light And the songs of saints and angels Rise before You day and night
Chorus
Only You are holy Only You are holy Only You are worthy Lord of majesty Only You are holy Only You are holy We lift high the name of Jesus Only You are holy
Verse 2
Every crown is laid before You Every heart will one day bow All creation stands in wonder At the beauty of Your name You are merciful and mighty You are faithful, just, and true And the honour of the nations Will belong to only You
Chorus
Only You are holy Only You are holy Only You are worthy Lord of majesty Only You are holy Only You are holy We lift high the name of Jesus Only You are holy
Bridge
Holy, holy Lord Almighty All the earth cries out Your praise Holy, holy King eternal Be exalted in this place
Bridge
Holy, holy Lord Almighty All the earth cries out Your praise Holy, holy King eternal Be exalted in this place
Final Chorus
Only You are holy Only You are holy Only You are worthy Lord of majesty Only You are holy Only You are holy We lift high the name of Jesus Only You are holy
Outro
Only You are holy Only You are holy
More from Holy Is the Lord
Hear the song within the full EP.
The song belongs to a five-song worship journey. These companion songs carry the same release theme from different angles.
Before Your Throne
Awe, reverence and humility
The opener sets the gathered posture, inviting worshippers to come before God with reverence and humility.
Holy Is the Lord
Awe, adoration and declaration
The main theme statement, carrying the release's holiness focus with a clear and memorable congregational hook.
Set Apart
Surrender and reverence
A response song that asks what holiness means for the people of God: belonging to Him and living for His glory.
Crowned in Glory
Wonder, nearness and worship
A warmer devotional track that keeps the EP reverent while bringing the worshipper close in adoration.
Worship for the gathered church
Explore the full Holy Is the Lord EP.
Only You Are Holy is one part of a wider worship journey shaped for everyday listeners, local churches and worship leaders.