As the World Bleeds

Why do we only call Your name when there's no one else to call? And we only really seek You when our mighty towers fall Why do we say You've failed us and You've turned Your eyes away When we're only sleeping in the bed we made? Why do we call for fr

A child in sweet duplicity For innocence? Or slavery to nature And the bents that haunt him straight out of the womb? He doesn't have to learn the things unseemly that his instinct brings To carry like a burden from the cradle to the tomb You'll neve

So the candle's gone out, it's been soaked by the rain And the cold winds of doubt have extinguished the flame The lighthouse sits idly in darkness again As the ship sails ocean alone The sun's frozen over and all has gone cold And the fires of the p

What do you see when you look around? In the shadows where you would think no light could be found It's there Pictures and signs in these modern times? It's there to be seen if you read between the lines Everywhere Tell me, do you see what I see? Too

I've been working for my whole life to get to the other side And try to achieve true righteousness All the scourges and whips I cracked The flesh I ripped off my back It only led me to emptiness Here I am, a broken man who's done all that a man could

I am the light upon your path when you have lost your way I am the footprints in the sand the ocean's tide can't wash away I am the shelter from the storm that rages on and on The incorruptible foundation that the wise man builds upon I am the bread