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