Time And Escape

I've been confined for ten winters now

Cold world, a cold man getting by somehow

I'm a dead man walking through these concrete halls

A mark a week for ten years on these prison walls

I've heard of a saving grace, but that grace hasn't set me free

And the holy book they gave hasn't done much speaking

I know there must something stronger than my pain

I need more than a faceless name, I want to believe

So this is the first time we have talked

I'm drowning in sorrow, you know everything I've lost

Does my salvation rest on things I've done

If I run to you, are you quick to judge?

I'm laying everything down

They say you can take my pain and erase mistakes somehow

My wife and son are waiting, I'm waiting to be there

More than anything I need peace and I can't find it here

God of grace and hope, make yourself known

I'm tired of trying, I can't make it on my own

I was a prisoner before these steel bars

My life was gone before this concrete box

Ten years of being dead inside

Ten years of haunting thoughts

And restless nights

There's nothing left for me here

I'm tired of hate

Take everything I am away

That I could see your beauty

And others see you through me

All I am is at your feet

Breathe life into me

I'm done with emptiness; hollow shell of a man's regrets

Create a melody, that I could sing your praise

I can feel you in this place