
Date of issue: 31.12.2003
Record label: Capitol Christian
Song language: English
Carousels |
On a bus ride into town |
I wondered out loud «Why am I going to town?» |
And as I looked around at the billboards and the stores |
I thought «Why do I look around?» |
And I kissed the filthy ground |
And in the first dry spot I found |
And I didn’t have to wonder why I was laying down. |
Before long I was too cold |
Took a bus back to the station |
I found a letter left by a pay phone |
With no return contact |
And it read like a horn blown by some sad angel |
«Bunny, it was me… it was me who let you down» |
It was the shyest attempt I’d ever seen at conversation |
If I didn’t have You as my guide I’d still wander lost in Sinai, |
Counting the plates of cars from out-of-state, |
(how I could jump in their path as they hurry along!) |
You surround me, you’re pretty but you’re all I can see, |
like a thick fog — if there was no way into God, |
I would never have laid in this grave of a body for so long. |
And Bonner fair always came through the first week of September |
But it’s already the 19th |
And there’s no sign of it. |
Yet I have a hard time |
Remembering all the things that I should remember |
And a hard time |
Forgetting the all things that I am supposed forget. |
Oh Christ when You’re ready to come back |
I think I’m ready for You to come back |
But if You want to stay wherever exactly it is You are, |
That’s okay too — it’s really none of my business. |
If I didn’t have You as my guide I’d still be wandering lost in Sinai |
Or down by the tracks watching trains go by to remind me: |
There are places that aren’t here. |
I had a well but all the water left |
So I’ll ask Your forgiveness with every breath, |
If there was no way into God, |
I would never have laid in this grave of a body for so long, dear. |
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January 1979 | 2003 |
In A Sweater Poorly Knit | |
Silencer | 2001 |
The Fox, The Crow And The Cookie | 2008 |
Julia (or, ‘Holy to the LORD’ on the Bells of Horses) | 2018 |
My Exit, Unfair | 2003 |
Red Cow | 2016 |
Every Thought A Thought Of You | 2008 |
Grist for the Malady Mill | 2015 |
Torches Together | 2003 |
Gentlemen | 2001 |
Pale Horse | 2015 |
Everything Was Beautiful And Nothing Hurt | 2001 |
Fox's Dream of the Log Flume | 2015 |
Elephant in the Dock | 2015 |
Bullet To Binary | 2001 |
The Soviet | 2003 |
Seven Sisters | 2003 |
Tie Me Up! Untie Me! | 2003 |
Nine Stories | 2015 |