Living Proof

Well, now on a summer night
Well, in a dusky room
Come a little piece of the Lord's undying light
Crying like he swallowed the fiery moon

Yeah, in his mother's arms
It was all the beauty I could take
Like the missing words to some prayer
Well, that I could never make

Oh, in a world so hard and dirty
So fouled and confused
Searching for a little bit of god's mercy
I found living proof

Well, I put my heart and soul, baby
I put 'em high upon a shelf
Right next to that faith
Faith that I'd lost in myself

I went down into the desert city
Yeah, just tryin' so hard to shed my skin
I crawled deep into some kind of darkness
Lookin' to burn out every, every trace of who I'd been

You do some sad sad things baby
Oh, when it's you you're tryin' to lose
You do some sad and hurtful things
I seen living proof

You shot through my anger and rage
To show me my prison was just an open, open cage
There were no keys, no guards
Oh, just one frightened man and some old shadows for bars

Well, now all that's sure on the boulevard
Is that life is just a house of cards
As fragile as each and every breath
Of this boy sleepin' in our bed

Tonight let's lie beneath the eaves, baby
It's just a close band of happy thieves
And when that train comes, we'll get on board
And steal what we can from the treasures, treasures of the Lord

It's a long long drought baby
Tonight the rain's pourin' down on our roof
Oh, looking for a little bit of god's mercy
I found living proof
Oh, living proof
I found living proof
Yeah, living proof
I found living proof
Oh, living proof
I found living proof
Oh, living proof
Yeah, I found living proof
I found living proof
I found living proof
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