Hiding in darkness
Shrouded in sounds
Dead to reality
In black mourning gown
So many problems
So much wrong today
Haunting me with answers
I shrug your words away
(Chorus)
Why won’t you just leave me
Can’t you here me begging thee
I’m just trying to live my life for me
Through dulled senses
Humming in my ears
Trying not to hear you
Frustrated tears
Can’t drown out this whisper
That I need to hear
Wearing down my resistance
I’m still surprised you care
(Chorus)
I know you’ll never leave me
Can’t you hear me begging thee
Help me dedicate my life to thee
Desperate grasping
I stop and take a breath
Please show me what matters
Take this fear of death
Please teach me to listen
Please teach me to care
I’m grateful for your persistence
And your precious gift of prayer
(Chorus)
I know you’ll never leave me
Can’t you hear me begging thee
Help me dedicate my life to thee
Desperate grasping
I stop and take a breath
You’ve shown me what matters
Taken my fear of death
You’ve taught me to listen
You’ve taught me to care
I’m grateful for your persistence
And your precious gift of prayer
I don’t accept your blasphemy
You’re wrong as hell, and that’s where you’ll be
This stuff is not a joke, you see
But your choices seem pretty funny to me
Hatred won’t help anything
Life is not pro wrestling
If I hate you, then you’ll hate me
We have a choice, what will it be?
There’s always someone better than you
There’s always someone worse off, too
Complain or help, it’s up to you
You might find helping helps you too
Satan don’t really like you
Never met anyone he wouldn’t screw
Stoke your pride and vanity
Sin will cost you but your will is free
(Violin solo)
Don’t choose death, it’ll choose you
If someone’s life sucks then yours will, too
Help each other, and we’ll get through
Satan’s a dick, don’t be one, too
Don’t mess with the devil, he’ll mess with you
Make you do things you don’t want to do
You’ll feel like shit when it’s all through
Satan likes your sin, but he don’t like you!
(The arteries of commerce pulse and we’re anxious to arrive. We are the cells that feed ourselves in order to survive.)
From where I sit I watch the traffic circle
Constant flow that stops but never ends
In our drive to get to places where we’re going
Do we ever really wonder where we’ve been?
(Chorus)
Whirling, swirling, merging, verging,
endless circulation urging
Getting, spending, using, choosing
all your strength used up and losing.
We push ourselves, we push each other
just to reach the end another
day used up to reach another
night to fret then start again. (x2)
When will we learn the end is not the answer
The destination never was in doubt
In time our journey will always be over
In time the sands that fill will all run out
(Chorus)
Violin solo
(Chorus)
It really doesn’t matter when we get there
If you can help me overcome this fall
It doesn’t matter where we think we’re going
The process is the product after all.
(Chorus)
Turning left and going fast
Ignoring how my life won’t last
Lived to rock and rocked to die
I need a purpose bigger than I
(Chorus)
Can’t you help this all make sense
Frustrated, tired, worn out and spent
There’s only so much I can do
On my own and without you
I did it my way, it’s not enough
I need something I can trust
You told me once and one more time
Traveling fast, I can’t read the signs
(Chorus)
Can’t you help this all make sense
Frustrated, tired, worn out and spent
There’s only so much I can do
On my own and without you
Highway to Hell, I know it well
Fired the cannon, rang the bell
Many meanings in black, so choose them well
I’ll try again although I fell
(Chorus) Can’t you help this all make sense
Frustrated, tired, worn out and spent
There’s only so much I can do
On my own and without you
How much longer
this plague of life?
(This is a test)
Marionette of pain
Plays strings of strife
Oh God sends stars to catch me if I fall
What do you want?
What do you need?
(This is a test)
What must I prove
for this pain to cease
Oh God send stars to catch me if I fall
I’m on my knees
Spare a drop of joy
(This is a test)
All-powerful one
Does my begging annoy?
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