hope It's my only hope of Heaven At the cross forgiven And I have long withstood Your grace Long provoked You to Your face Would not hearken to Your calls
No one would love me If they knew all the things I hide My words fall to the floor As tears drip through the telephone line And the hands I've seen raised
Sometimes I fear maybe I'm not chosen You've hardened my heart like Pharoah And that would explain why life is so hard for me And I am sad that Esau
The Word of the Lord came one evening Concerning His bride's great sin He'd send down His Word to renew her To prepare for the Bridegroom again The Word
It's a muggy night in Houston And all the intersections are like full service stations I'm on my way to a familiar place It's cold in Kansas City And
telling the truth or a lie On you I just can't rely, after all you're just a piece of glass Still I control this nightmare, when I call it answers But
I can't stop staring at myself My face reflected in this empty plate I can't decide if it's the devil Or if it's just something I ate 'Cause he's been
I think this place is swell There's much familiar here I get my laundry done I haven't gotten phone calls in years When I'm feelin' tired I can turn
I'm in love I've never been so sure of anything But then again it could be a tumor in my brain Tricking me into thinking that we were meant to be Either
I come from a long line of leavers Out of the garden gate with an apple in their hands Well I expect and I believe it You're gonna run out of love, you
'm so scared of being alone That I forget what house I live in But it's not my job to wait by the phone For her to call This day's been crazy But everything
You know I ran across an old box of letters While I was baggin' up some clothes for goodwill Imagine you know I had to laugh that the same old struggles
Late at night I wonder why, sometimes I wonder why Sometimes I?m so tired, I don?t even try Seems everything around me fails But I hold on to the promise
I've been putting on and putting off too many people And I'm getting old to live Like an injured man, ailments and unfilled prescriptions Like the nose
Sometimes I believe all the lies So I can do the things I should despise And every day I am swayed By whatever is on my mind I hear, it all depends on
I mount up with waxen wings High to reach the sun And I am no further than When I first begun So, I build a mount of Athos To shape Your form against
This is the valley that I'm walking through And if feels like forever since I've been close to You My friends up above me don't understand why I struggle
There's tarnish on the golden rule And I want to jump from this ship of fools Show me a place where hope is young And people who are not afraid to love