i strum a few old broken chords try to wake them from the dead
wrestle words i've never written now from the things i've always said
and i look up to the heavens and i stare down at my feet
till the verses meet in silence and the chorus is complete
play the fifths as they were written - drink the fifth where i just sat
one gets by without a capo changing keys in seconds flat
and i look up to the heavens clouds can cover bluest skies
all the silver linings kept there touching hearts and longing cries
one note wrests above another are we playing now the key
that this saddened heart has written - me for you and you for me?
we can try to play together in the discord that it brings
solo voice the bar has written with a haunting voice that sings
i strike up the chorus waiting can i wrest them now and raise
in the dark that's never ending can i stir them to their praise
give them books with edges fraying - speak them now with tongue and pen
bring the past now to tomorrow - sing them once and sing again
i hear organs, pipes a breathing pulled out deeply from my own
like a child who's somehow singing in the words he'd never known
took the lauds and prime at sunrise - kissed the dew upon the lawn
cast my hope to somewhere distant - looked aside and it was gone
she sang for me long forgotten though i cast aside once more
God in heaven grants awakening when the soul has closed the door
and the faintest knock comes touching like a fire that has to burn
and i fixed my eyes upon it and the lock i gently turn
there is no one there awaiting clad in sandals or a gown
no messiah with a cross there holding nails or with a crown
i can't rip her from the pages where i've lost e'er to begin
yet you've struck the soul that's written and i can never read again
write it down your revelation - God comes to me other ways
you look forward to the future while he lives in better days
in the yesterdays, tomorrows, fears i shed and tears i pour
just today you stand beside me how can i ask anymore