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I should have seen all these signs around me
But I was comfortable inside these wounds
So go ahead and take another piece of me now
While we all bow down to you

You tear me down and then you pick me up
You take it all but still it's not enough
You try to tell me you can heal me
But I'm still bleeding and you will be the death of me

How can you mend my affliction
If you're the sickness and not the cure
But too long I have faked this addiction
Another sacrifice I made cause I'm pure

I was born in Tennessee, late July humidity doctors said I was lucky to be alive
I’ve Been troubled since the day that I got here, troubled to the day I disappear
That’ll be the day that I finally get it right

There is hope, for me yet, because God won’t forget, all the plans he’s made for me
I have to wait and see, he’s not finished with me yet, he’s not finished with me yet

I never really was that good in school. Talked to much, broke the rules
My teachers thought I was a hopeless fool all right.

Why are you striving these days
Why are you trying to earn grace
Why are you crying
Let me lift up your face
Just don't turn away

Why are you looking for love
Why are you still searching as if I'm not enough
To where will you go child
Tell me where will you run
To where will you run

And I'll be by your side
Wherever you fall
In the dead of night
Whenever you call
And please don't fight

Well, it's easier to take
When it's easy not to break
But set the enemy on fire
And feel the flames grow higher and higher and higher

If i could, than i would run across the sea
So you'd speak to me

Back and forth, the waves keep crashing
Hold on, my head, i keep on sinking
I need your hand to steady me
To bring your peace to this storm
'cause back and forth
Yeah, oh, oh

Well, it's easy not to care,
When apathy poisons the air
Well, on the surface it seems calm
But underneath war rages on and on and on