Abide

I will bring a cup of water Here's the best that I can offer In the dusk of coming night There is evidence of light With the pattering of rain Let us bow as if in grace Consider all the ways we heal And how a heart Can break Oh abide with me Where it's breathless and it's empty Yes abide with me And we'll pass the evening gently Stay awake with me And we'll listen more intently To something wordless and remaining Sure and ever changing In the quietness of now Let us ponder the unknown What is hidden and what's whole And finally learn to travel At the speed of our own souls There is a living water A spirit cutting through Always changing always making All things new Oh abide with me Where it's breathless and it's empty Yes abide with me And we'll pass the evening gently Stay awake with me And we'll listen more intently To something wordless and remaining Sure and ever changing In the quietness of now There are things I cannot prove And still somehow I know It's like a message in a bottle That some unseen hand has thrown You don't have to be afraid You don't have to walk alone I don't know but I suspect That it will feel Like home Oh abide with me Where it's breathless and it's empty Yes abide with me And we'll pass the evening gently Stay awake with me And we'll listen more intently To something wordless and remaining Sure and ever changing In the quietness of now