I'll Still Be Here

I’ll be here where you have left me
Where you turned and said goodbye
Where broken hearts and promises
Are felt in souls and sighs

I am your mind’s greatest Lord
I am your heart’s desire
Though you’ve turned and walked from me
Into that raging fire

I’ll still be here
When you return
All troubled and tired
And broken and burned

You saw a demon’s Hell-bent path
Going to the depths below
He showed you nothing but hate and wrath
Then dealt the final blow

He whipped you and he beat you child
‘Till you were nothing but tears and blood
He was a manic and completely wild
Crazed in his firey flood

Come back to me my child
When you’ve seen the hateful hand
I’ll watch over you
And place you in the promised land

But until then I’ll be beside you
I’ll guide you all the way
I’ll forget all of your troubled past
So that you may rightly say,

“The Lord has given me
A chance that I might live
He has forgiven me
Of all my mortal sins

“So that I may say
I am redeemed
That the Lord’s great grace
Is all that I need

“And He called to me
And took my hand
And showed me to
His promised land.”

And He said:
“I’ll still be here
When you return
All troubled and tired
And broken and burned.”

“And He called to me
And He took my hand
And showed me to
His promised land.”

And He said:
“I’ll still be here
When you return
All troubled and tired
And broken and burned

“I’ll still be here
When you return
All troubled and tired
And broken and burned....”