Man-made shame You see my pain is real Watch my world dissolve And pretend that none of us see the fall As I turned to sand You took me by the hand And declared, that love prevails over all All of what remains

Well the landslide brought me down But time makes you bolder Children get older And if you see my reflection in the snow-covered hills I took my love and I look it down I climbed a mountain and I turned around And I saw my reflection in the snowcovered

What is my worth? Gave my love a piece of me She put my heart beneath her feet She turned and left the question, "What's my worth?" Can't seem to find someone's shoulder Who will I rely on when it's over Took a chance with you, it made me colder Better

Hand over your will and then you'll see Now get on your knees and worship me On your knees Can't you see I feel your pain? I've got Jesus running through my veins In this hopeless life that's turned on you Give yourself to me, I'll help you through

Running blind I'm running blind I've been crawling on my knees Looking for anything To keep me from drowning Now I'm running backward Somebody help me see I'm running blind Can't find the answers Promises have been turned to lies

But I'm still waiting, yeah, and I'm still waiting And if my hand could block the sun, Would we ever wake up? And if I turned back all these clocks, Would that be time enough? On clearer days I can see the lights from my bedroom door, On windy nights I

Rest your head now don't you cry Don't ever ask the reason why I, lost all I had (that April day) I, turned to my friends (nothing to see) I, wrote down a name (and read it twice) I, wallow in shame I, said that I love (eternal skis)

I could see it as you turned to stone Still clearly I can hear you say And I can see the fear in your eyes I've seen it materialize Growing stronger each day Two weeks and you ran away I remember don't lie to me You couldn't see that it was not that way

Man-made shame You see my pain is real Watch my world dissolve And pretend that none of us see the fall As I turned to sand You took me by the hand And declared, that love prevails over all All of what remains

When I reminisce about all those years of tribulation, I mostly remember Our songs. We died, and our blood seeped away on the battlefields; but our Songs survived, together with those of us that returned. And as they too Will die one day, our songs will