Verse 1
Every chair still warm from the ones who left
Coffee rings like halos on the floor
I stayed when the last amen was said
Hands in my pockets
Eyes on the door
I know every word of the songs we sing
But they fall like leaves
They don’t take root
I mouth along while my doubts still ring
I’m halfway standing
Halfway mute
Pre-chorus
Are You tired of this ache I drag around?
Are You distant or just quiet now?
Chorus
Hold me in the tension like a tide
Rushing in and pulling back at night
I am caught between the ache and the answer
Between the wound and the Healer’s side
Jesus
Meet me in the middle of my mind
’Til my suffering turns to sight
Verse 2
There’s a cross on the wall that I call my own
But I wear my shame like a second skin
I pray like a thief scared of going home
Knocking soft
Then running again
Pre-chorus
Do You sit inside the silence that I fear?
If I break will I find You here?
Chorus
Hold me in the tension like a tide
Rushing in and pulling back at night
I am caught between the ache and the answer
Between the wound and the Healer’s side
Jesus
Meet me in the middle of my mind
’Til my suffering turns to sight
Bridge
If You are a Man of sorrows
Then You know this borrowed pain
If You drank the cup of anguish
Then You hear me when I say
I don’t see the way You’re working
I can barely even pray
But I’m hanging on Your promise
That the grave will give way
Chorus
So hold me in the tension like a tide
Rushing in and pulling back at night
I am caught between the ache and the answer
Between the wound and the Healer’s side
Jesus
Meet me in the middle of my mind
Stay beside me in the shadow and the fight
’Til my suffering turns to sight
