Violence Songtext
von Sleeping Giant

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 current keeps pulling him further out to sea
Well 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 that my brother up
And abandoned us for his philosophical musings
Well how amusing

And why don′t you sing over me?
Oh 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?
Will 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 if 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
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
Frostbitten and frozen in time
As though the days are but a whisper
But shrill enough to constantly remind me
That 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 foundation
So we will stand round 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