Darkness Visible

Oh Lord, here's another prayer, another ache Like a dog fight, another hopeless state It comes to me and it's like throwing cocaine All over the place It was the same again yesterday I went back on the stage I was dancing naked with wild fantasies I could see myself like a child in the breeze When darkness comes around You're nowhere to be found The abyssal infinity Stands right 'tween you and me Lord, if there was a prayer that could turn things around I would write it as a check a hundred and eight times And the chores and defeats and the final countdowns It all adds up, like a blade in my heart When I knocked on your door, there was blood on the bell I saw myself singing at the Blue Heart Motel It was that time of the year, I regret vagabondry When the girls were all ravishing and all looking at me When darkness comes around You're nowhere to be found The abyssal infinity Stands right 'tween you and me Lord, take my hand, and please guide me In this hour of grief, I can't see I saw Jesus bleeding, preaching forgiveness But there is nothing, from a scar you that you can guess So the tears that I cried, night after night I saw them as failure, but you told me twice "You need hope on the shore, on the sea you survive" So put out the fire from this heart of mine When darkness comes around You're nowhere to be found The abyssal infinity Stands right 'tween you and me When darkness comes around You're nowhere to be found The abyssal infinity Stands right 'tween you and me