Afterglow

People search for clues to your existence A sun and a symbol Golden idols, dumb tea leaves The riddle answer's not so tricky Your purpose, your meaning The riddle's already been solved Move to the city, feel so small A drop in a puddle The crowded highway's so cliché You leave for work and I start staring The wall and the whiteness Can't force my fingers to write Bible studies, jokes and lies Boys sit in chairs My brother's gone for a long time You're always leaving me your afterglow You know that I'm that afterglow You're always leaving me your afterglow You know that I'm your afterglow I worry about what may happen Some car crash or cancer I worry about who I may lose Start my day naming sorrows Impossible danger Send my mind out wandering a while The news tells me about that evil The drownings and killings The news tells me to be afraid Sleep with you, I still have nightmares Of fire and heaven All this sin must level out Give up my gun, fall on my sword again So this is like trusting Tell you I am gonna scream I want that ladder up to heaven Some night-timing wrestle with God I want that stairway up to space I want that ladder up to heaven Some night-timing wrestle with God I want that stairway up to space Thumbprint me deeper with your image I'm not some dirty mansion Thumbprint me deeper with your grace Clean up this broke down mansion Thumbprint me deeper with your image Cause I'm not some dirty mansion Thumbprint me deeper with your grace One day everything will cease One day we will have peace Built a bridge across divide Jealous rose risen on high One day everything will cease the groaning One day we will have peace, the King Built a bridge across divide to Heaven Jealous rose risen on high forever One day everything will cease the groaning One day we will have peace, the King Built a bridge across divide to Heaven Jealous rose risen on high forever