Prayer In Open D

There's a valley of sorrow in my soul

Where every night I hear the thunder roll

Like the sound of a distant gun

Over all the damage I have done

And the shadows filling up this land

Are the ones I built with my own hand

There is no comfort from the cold

Of this valley of sorrow in my soul

There's a river of darkness in my blood

And through every vein I feel the flood

I can find no bridge for me to cross

No way to bring back what is lost

Into the night it soon will sweep

Down where all my grievances I keep

But it won't wash away the years

Or one single hard and bitter tear

And the rock of ages I have known

Is a weariness down in the bone

I used to ride it like a rollin' stone

Now I just carry it alone

But there's a highway risin' from my dreams

Deep in the heart I know it gleams

For I have seen it stretching wide

Clear on across to the other side

Beyond the river and the flood

And the valley where for so long I stood

With the rock of ages in my bones

Someday, I know it will lead me home

Oh

Oh

Oh

Oh