Messiah

Standing on the precipice
Looking over kingdoms spread out
Across my back and in my name

Fed by words and breathing in
the fear of all the innocents
Letting out an air of confidence

Do you believe that life has meaning
Are you concerned with all the reasons I didn't jump

There's no threat of death where death is not allowed
There's no faith alone without the threat of death
So I say look me in the eye, look me in the eye
Look me in the eye and breathe

Outside underneath and over
Every thought of any possibility
written on the palm of just one hand
When that fist is closed the lines
Are creased and wrath is overflowed
Blood leaves every vessel in your head

Do you believe that life has meaning
Are you concerned with all the reasons I didn't jump

There's no threat of death where death is not allowed
There's no faith alone without the threat of death
So I say look me in the eye, look me in the eye
Look me in the eye and breathe

(this is actually a song I wrote a couple of years ago. a great student of mine wrote the music for it. All about faith.)

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