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I've only run halfway. Feels like less than half my strength remains. But there's just one place I'll make my grave. It's in you. And When the Kingdom Suffers. I Must still remain. When the Kingdoms suffering Violence

A goblin told me that God was metaphorical

Well, metaphorically, when I come to the end of myself he's got a lot of the same questions as me

Said he's drowning beneath

An ocean of dogma and liturgy

And the waves keep pulling

Him further out to sea

While whatever the water

Uncovered underneath

Washes up, exposed on the beach

Said, "the father, who knows all secrets

Reveals them all eventually."

There is truth

It is stuck inside my head

It confuses everything I do

Once upon a time I knew

That it all belonged to you

But it all got misconstrued

The day my brother up

And abandoned us

For his philosophical musings

Well how amusing

And why don't you sing over me?

No really, why don't you sing over me?

Didn't you used to sing over me?

Is my brother gone because he never believed

Or if he did is he a son that you'll continue to keep?

And if I see so much of myself in him

What does that say about your grip on me?

Did you let him go, or did he leave?

Or did he stop seeking salvation

With fear and trembling?

Will I see my friends again in eternity?

How deeply can we grieve the spirit

Before the spirit's work will cease?

Oh, all my family, I'm afraid

Wind-driven and tossed

Like the waves of the sea

I'm not faithless, but I'm faltering

And I need you to pray for me

The kingdom suffers

And I've not run halfway

And less than half of my faith remains

But you can't deny yourself

Then there's still just one place that I'll make my grave

I hear the savior say

"Thy strength indeed is small

Child of weakness watch and pray

Find in me thine all in all

I have not abandoned your heart,"

I have not abandoned your heart

This has been the devil's winter

Frost bitten and frozen in time

As though the days are but a whisper

But shrill enough to constantly

Remind me:

The past is not forgotten

And my wounds are not yet healed

Yet when the sutures set and seal my heart

Even then the scars cannot be concealed

You have revealed yourself in weakness

Clothed yourself in poverty

The Emerald City holds so much of my soul

But its needles always find me wanting

My body groans with the rest of creation

And you intercede for me

Chosen before the earth's foundations

So we will stand ground expectantly

And I find my hope in the eager anticipation

Of what going home will bring

The kingdom suffers, and I've not run halfway

And less than half of my faith remains

But if you can't deny yourself then there's

Still just one place that I'll make my grave

I have not abandoned your heart

I will not abandon your heart