just some working lyrics

The flames that flicker in the water so deep
Black as night in this dark reflection I keep
Dancing in and out of my mind
Why so distant, and why so unkind?
 The face that looks back at me is scarred by the years
Maybe not visible the path of all these tears
Pushing back my lost remembrance of You
You fought to keep hold of me when I ran away from You
Was this just a matter of more print on a page?
Another story to be told by another sage?

Memory holds me to the bottom of a drum
That pounds within my heart till all my soul is numb
Looking over at the ruins of the days
All that was left of me when You left me to my ways
 Am I really so much older now?
Am I really so much colder than time would allow?
I can't keep in time with the rhythm of Your feet
 My heart always did find a wandering beat
 Can't hold on to what I've always known
How swiftly now the breeze has made those ashes flow
And what's left behind is not the fruit but the rind
Can you make blossoms bloom from such a broken life?

Was it really just like flames to the wine?

It took away the potency, and left barely a sign

Fire to refine the soul, to drown away the sweet

Knock me flat upon my back to put me back up on my feet

Push my face into the ground to make me gasp for breath

So I will throw back my head and look to heaven for whats left

And hear again...

CHORUS
I'm all that you are when there's nothing else left

I am the pound when your heart beats in your chest

I'm breath and life when the sun dries you again

I am the river in the wilderness when there's no one else to send

I am the voice in the rain when you are drowning again

I am the force in the wind when your breath is stolen, my friend

I am... I am the Lord of this life

I can only look at me as the stranger that I am
Wandering in a world too deep for me to comprehend
Lost so easy in all the twisting, narrow ways
Trying to find the truth in me for far too many days
 Still so lost, that daily I must be found
Your voice so soft, I can barely hear the sound