Kristina från Duvemåla (musical) "You Have To Be There" lyrics

You Have To Be There

KristinaYou have banished meFrom the land where I was bornHere upon a foreign shore, forsaken,I have followed You and done Thy willShould I kneel to you?When I rise You strike me downOnce again a little one you've takenEverywhere I turn it's darker still

What is it, Lord, that you wantAnd that I am not seeing?What, in my innocent prayers,Am I failing to say?

Never before have I questionedThe truth of your beingNever once have I daredNever until today

All of a tremble I standOn the edge of confusionWho is to save meIf into the darkness I fall?

Now that I need more than everMy God to be near meDo you hear when I call?Are you there, after all?

You have to be there, you have toMy life I have placed in thy keepAnd without you I am driftingOn a dark and rising sea

You have to be there, you have toWithout you I drown in the deepToo far, too far from landThe waters drag me downI reach for your hand

Who, when I die, will throw openHis arms to receive me?Who will believe me and take meInto his embrace?

When I have gone to my restWill you watch me and wake me?When my time comes at lastWill you grant me your grace?

I am so small in this earthI am nothing without youDaring to doubt you at allTurns a knife in my heart

Little by little I'm losing my wayIn the shadowsI am losing my holdAnd the world falls apart

You have to be there, you have toMy life I have placed in thy keepAnd without you I am driftingOn a dark and rising sea

You have to be there, you have toWithout you I drown in the deepToo far, too far from landThe waters drag me downI reach for your hand

And without you I am driftingOn a vast and rising seaYou have to be there, you have toWithout you I drown in the deepToo far, too far from landThe waters drag me downI reach for your hand

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