The Strength of Peace - timetoady (official)

I want to get up I want days to heat my soul But I'm already worn I'm already unwhole And I can't see a way Through another night of wolves Another dawn with nothing to say They made it easy To gamble away my life The thrill of it, the rush Of dancing on the knife Only to give way to the blade To be cut to the quick To be suddenly unmade And what can bring back a soul spiraling in the midday chill? When all good graces tear away in the tumble down the hill? When every step to make my way feels like I am holding still? And who can love me when I have nothing Because I lost it Because I sold it I sold it all away! I stood and looked up But the sky pointed down Past the railings of my porch And onto the distant ground There was my brother, my blood Laid out beneath empty sun Alone in the caking mud I began to walk Beyond my shabby walls I sat on the broken earth Where he had weathered his squalls I had no words, a mouth full of sand But as the sky offered a single cloud I reached and offered my hand And then the shades tear back! My pen goes from red to black! And the sun grows warm And in every form I am whole, I have lease! And though it felt like the days were grim Only when I reached out to him Could I find the strength of peace When my soul has no fire My hands weak and heart still No amount of steps or thrills Can restore the flame of will! Only when I bend and reach and lift And rebuild the places torn down Can I find anchor for my drift! Only when I kneel can I receive the crown! And then the shades tear back! My pen goes from red to black! And the sun grows warm And in every form I am whole, I have lease! And though it felt like the days were grim Only when I reached out to him Could I find the strength of peace! And then the shades tear back! My pen goes from red to black! And the sun grows warm And in every form I am whole, I have new lease! The fire roars in day and night! And when I lift my brother into the light I find the strength of peace! I find the strength of peace Lyrics: Adam Andreason