Up Against The Ropes

When everything you build falls down

And everything  you love is burnt to the ground

There is nothing

But salvation waiting

Open arms dont mind the blood

I’ve just been through the heart of the flood

Your tears can melt into my chest

Here you will know peace and rest

I still feel what you are

Not what you’ve done how far you’ve gone

Speaking for myself and the one that saved me

Not the first or the last but we’ll always be

Right where you need us

We’ll feed your hope and your meakness

Soloace lies within these wounded virtues

And I can help you work this through

If you just

If you just

If you just

Touch my mind

there’s a new  day

there’s a new way

But you won’t believe me

I won’t believe it

We don’t believe it

Fragile minds reap the signs

Sown into our invincible hearts

I will rebuild you

I will rebuild you

I will rebuild you

Tell me I’m not normal

But show me that I’m worthy

I’ll  crawl from out of this

Take my place amongst the bliss

The pure peace that we’ll  come to know

The fruit falls on the path one way to go

Extract this glass but be gentle

Your leading me to love that leaves me full

I still feel what you are

Not what you’ve done how far you’ve gone

Speak for myself and the one that saved me

Not the first or the last but we’ll always be

I’m not sinking

I’m not sinking

I’m not sinking

Down into the chains you keep polished for me

I’ll lessen myself to be raised by grace

I’ll take my own afflictions on face face

Walk way with my sanaity never to see them again

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

I am just a man who knows how to feel

“My kryptonite” I whisper to the dark
As the world inside my head falls apart
It’s salvation that I want
One more smoke will fix it all

I need love to fix what I’ve done
I need love to fix what I’ve become
I don’t know if the cross I lean against is there
For protection against the blades my body is bare

These beatings have been self-inflicted
To the pain in my heart I was so addicted
Distracting from the pain in my mind
A vicious cycle I want to leave behind

From my ribcage I watched her leave
I prayed for an end and for something to believe
And death and hell delivered up their dead
I still remember every word she said