From the recording Naked to the Truth
Lyrics
When I Rise
(C) 1990 Michael R. J. Roth
When I rise I will return
To the cold eye of the dawn
Reminding me that time began
From the moment you were gone
Since the day I gazed on you
I could bear no other sight
Like the true light of the moon
Burning through the lie of night
Once I had a heart of steel
Forged in furnaces of hate
And no wound it made would heal
Nor could it shield me from my fate
On the day I felt your love
Dissolve my heart like so much rust
It was like rain out on the field
Raising grain up from the dust.
Like a stone into a well
I have fallen on my hope
Like a refugee from hell
Standing with a telescope
Until the day you come for me
I will remain these many years
On this island of my soul
In this ocean of my tears