I once kept a crucifix on a chain
To remind me there's a purpose
And salvation in pain.
But there's not always a rainbow
After 40 days of rain.
Hell will rise up
Again and again.
God let me drown
With the sin in my heart,
Though I was baptized in fire,
And my ashes blown apart.
I starved for Lent in front of Noah's ark.
Knock on dogwood,
Just one more fresh start.
I sang out with the angels
And I knelt when I prayed,
But the LORD came to me in a dream and said,
"I command you, make Isaac bleed red.
Be not of the world
And listen instead."
And the more that I listened,
The more that I feared,
For God's voice sou