Kerry Ellis - You have to be there

You have banished me
From the land where I was born
Here upon a foreign shore, forsaken
I have followed you and done thy will
Should I kneel to you?
When I rise you strike me down
Once again a little one you’ve taken
Everywhere I turn it’s darker still

What is it, Lord, that you want, that I’m not seeing
What, in my innocent prayers, am I failing to say
Never before have I questioned the truth of your being
Never once I have dared
Never until today

All of a tremble I stand on the edge of confusion
Who is to save me if into the darkness I fall
Now that I need more than ever, my God to be near me
Do you hear when I call, are you there, after all

You have to be there, you have to, my life I have placed in thy keep
And without you I’m drifting on a dark and rising sea
You have to be there, you have to, without you I’d drown in the deep
Too far, too far from land, the waters drag me down
I reach for your hand

Who, when I die, will throw open his arms to receive me
Who will believe me and take me into his embrace
When I have gone to my rest will you watch me and wake me
When my time comes at last will you grant me your grace

I am so small on this earth, I am nothing without you
Daring to doubt you at all is a knife to my heart
Little by little I’m losing my way in the shadows
I am losing my hold, and the world falls apart

You have to be there, you have to, my life I have placed in thy keep
And without you I’m drifting on a dark and rising sea
You have to be there, you have to, without you I’d drown in the deep
Too far, too far from land, the waters drag me down I reach for your hand

You have to be there, you have to,
Without you I’d drown in the deep
Too far, too far from land, the waters
drag me down
I reach for your hand