You Have To Be There - Helen Sjöholm

You have banished me\nFrom the land where I was born\nHere upon a foreign shore forsaken\nI have followed you\nAnd gone thy way\nShould I kneel to you\nWhen I rise you strike me down\nOnce again a little one you’ve taken\nEverywhere I turn it’s darker still\nWhat is it Lord that you want\nAnd that I am not seeing?\nWhat in my innocent prayers\nAm I failing to say?\nNever before have I questioned the truth of your being\nNever once have I dared\nNever until today\nAll of a tremble\nI stand on the edge of confusion\nWho is to save me\nIf into the darkness I fall?\nNow that I need more than ever my Lord to be near me\nDo you hear when I call?\nAre you there after all?\nYou have to be there, you have to\nMy life I have placed in thy keep\nAnd without you I am drifting on a dark and rising sea\nYou have to be there, you have to\nWithout you I’d drown in the deep\nToo far, too far from land\nThe waters drag me down\nI reach for your hand\nWho when I die will throw open his arms to receive me?\nWho will believe me and take me into his embrace?\nAnd when I go to my rest, who will watch me and wake me?\nWhen my time comes at last, will you grant me your grace?\nI am so small of this Earth, I am nothing without you\nDaring to doubt you at all turns a knife in my heart\nLittle by little I’m losing my way in the shadows\nI am losing my home and the world fall apart\nYou do have to be there, you have to\nMy life I have placed in thy keep\nAnd without you I am drifting on a dark and rising sea\nYou have to be there, you have to\nWithout you I’d drown in the deep\nToo far, too far from land\nThe waters drag me down\nI reach for your hand\nAnd without you I am drifting on a dark and rising sea\nYou have to be there, you have to\nWithout you I’d drown in the deep\nToo far, too far from land\nThe waters drag me down\nI reach for your hand