Anthems

You have banished me From the land where I was born Here upon a foreign shore forsaken I have followed you And gone thy way Should I kneel to you When I rise you strike me down Once again a little one you've taken Everywhere I turn it's darker still
What is it Lord that you want And that I am not seeing? What in my innocent prayers Am I failing to say? Never before have I questioned the truth of your being Never once have I dared Never until today
All of a tremble I stand on the edge of confusion Who is to save me If into the darkness I fall? Now that I need more than ever my Lord to be near me Do you hear when I call? Are you there after all?
You have to be there, you have to My life I have placed in thy keep And without you I am drifting on a dark and rising sea You have to be there, you have to Without you I'd drown in the deep Too far, too far from land The waters drag me down I reach for your hand
Who when I die will throw open his arms to receive me? Who will believe me and take me into his embrace? And when I go to my rest, who will watch me and wake me? When my time comes at last, will you grant me your grace? I am so small of this Earth, I am nothing without you Daring to doubt you at all turns a knife in my heart Little by little I'm losing my way in the shadows I am losing my home and the world fall apart
You do have to be there, you have to My life I have placed in thy keep And without you I am drifting on a dark and rising sea You have to be there, you have to Without you I'd drown in the deep Too far, too far from land The waters drag me down I reach for your hand
And without you I am drifting on a dark and rising sea You have to be there, you have to Without you I'd drown in the deep Too far, too far from land The waters drag me down I reach for your hand