The Journey Into

i. THE BARRIER FALLS

For a moment, touch the sky

for a moment, you can fly

if sunlight will fall today

for a moment, who am I

for a moment, for a try

as the barrier falls today

All too soon, what am I

all too soon, you and I

fly to the end of time

all too soon, I'm falling fast

all too soon, a fading past

is gone with no reason or rhyme

ii. RECKLESSNESS

Spending life so helpless

my world has fallen apart

spending life so friendless

I'm praying for one new start

Taking on the challenges

that I'm faced with everyday

facing all the differences

so things will change someday

I'm not ready for this

how could I be ready for this?

I need to find another way

to hold on for one more day

It's deliverance that I need

with no warnings left to heed

as I rise above the restlessness

I find a sense of carelessness

a sense of loss, a sense of life

a pretense of my recklessness

Trying to wait patiently

for things that carry weight

a greater hope of faithfulness

is hope I can't create

Looking for the solution

or an answer from the sky

things will start to fall in place

when I live outside the lie

Do you hear the thunder

as the clouds prepare

for somber rain?

Do you ever wonder

why life is strange

and full of pain?

It's deliverance that I need

with no warnings left to heed

as I rise above the restlessness

I find a sense of carelessness

a sense of loss, a sense of life

a pretense of my recklessness

iii. THE ROAD DOWN

In the dark I close my eyes

there's an image of you deep inside

and every day that passes by

part of me is gone with the tide

My thoughts reflect too far

as I wonder where you are

this fear has found a home

and lies deep within the bone

On a clear and distant night

with no heat from summer light

I begin to see the end

in the wake of fate's new trend

I have no way to clear my sight

I have no sense of wrong or right

as I force my will to go

a direction no map can show

And as I find a way

down the wandering road

I feel a sense of sadness

I steal a sense of hope

I have what's in my mind

what I need is what I can find

on this road that leads me down

while my head spins 'round and 'round

iv. WHERE I STAND IN THE LIGHT

Now the storm, the storm is raging

and I feel it inside tonight

and since the norm is always changing

I can't find where I stand in the light

All the lack of care I've shown

has left me lost without a home

I'm playing roles not meant for me

I'm making goals not meant to be

For a moment what would I give

to see the day end this night

all too soon I'm forced to live

with no dawn in my sight

Where do I stand

can't someone tell me?

I've been searching

searching all this time

it's not what I planned

but something tells me

I've been waiting too long for a sign

What I feel I've had to steal

what I've got is all that's real

what I've got I've had to steal

what I feel is all that's real

Now the storm, the storm is raging

and I feel it inside tonight

and since the norm is always changing

I can't find where I stand in the light

And the storm is raging on

The answers I'm seeking

are on the horizon

all questions are fleeting

in the storm that's raging on

the storm that is raging

is where I walk into the light

v. THE RAGING STORM (instrumental)

vi. DELIVERANCE

In my search I found the path

now my mind is freed at last

all thoughts that plague me

are stripped away

as I find the meaning

in the dawn of day

In the forefront of my mind

is what I left behind

in this long journey's end

I'm taken to a new light

what I had from the start

is the thing that was right

if only I had seen

deliverance was in me

And the storm, the storm was raging

I could feel it inside that night

and since I was set on changing

I have found what to stand for

and what is right

It's deliverance that I've found

with no warnings left to sound

'cause I rose above the restlessness

to find a sense of carelessness

a sense of loss, a sense of life

deliverance from my recklessness