The Long Defeat - The Mountain

I just want to see your face
I just want to hear you saying my name
I thought you'd be found if
I came to the mountain
I just want to see your face
I just need a drop of rain
So this is my voice
I'm calling out to you
I've done all that I can do
Now I hope you're listening
I thought if your people prayed
Humbled themselves and turned from their ways
You said you would hear them and
Open the heavens and
Finally send your rain
Oh God, why won't you send your rain
In a world so lost, what can one man do
God I don't understand, but I'm trying to
I'm here and I'm willing, I just don't know the way
I need you now, please just show me your face
I've been down in that desert, been praying for rain
Forty days and forty nights, but not a drop came
Now I'm here on the mountain, I've come all this way
I see the world from a distance, in all of its pain
The earth and her people are crying out
For the water from heaven to finally end this drought
And I can't understand why you just won't move
We're your children, so save us
And do it soon
Because you know we can't survive going on like this
So why don't you just come down and fix it
Can't you see how much we need you, we're hopeless on our own
We're poisoning our bodies, destroying our homes
We build up our kingdoms on fear and mistrust
We justify hating anyone who isn't just like us
We fight endless wars over imaginary borders
Billions kill and die just following orders
We think that peace comes from war
We think that peace comes from war
So maybe it's all we deserve to end up this way
We're doing it to ourselves every single day
So if you don't come to the rescue this time I really can't complain
You see, I don't know if we'll ever change
But I know we could use a little
Rain
Then I saw your plan unfolded
Eternity in every moment
Darkness dies in light
And all is now made right
Here at the end of all things
Is the beginning of the beginning
And I pray
Teach me how to speak your name
Fill me up and pour me out like rain
So this is my voice
And I'm giving it to you
I've done all that I can do
Now I hope you're listening
And this is my song
The only thing I call my own
Well its not mine anymore
Would you sing it with me
I believe in greater works than these
That together we could be
More than this world has ever seen
HE WILL BE
And that's more than enough for me
Just give me your words and I will speak
Until I'm gone
So this is my voice
(There is no hate, there is no fear)
And I'm giving it to you
(For I have seen the other side)
I've done all that I can do
(And I believe that love is near)
Now I hope you're listening
(And here arms are open wide)
And this is my song
(There is no hate, there is no fear)
The only thing I call my own
(For I have seen the other side)
This is my dream, this is my life
(And I believe that love is near)
But it's not mine anymore
(And here arms are open wide)

Written by:
Philip Washington

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