here i stand on the corner of hope and despair where promises disappear like smoke in the thin air angels walk on crutches past people on their knees where salvation is nothing but just a distant dream and i walk through a park of poisoned hungry veins passing a cathedral where a voice cries jesus saves where father s eyes and alabies litter broken streets maybe when you re pour as dirt all you have are dreams false hopes pour down like a hard november rain but still the sun shines through when they sing hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah salvation s only casualty is me in my church of memories through the pain pride and shame somehow love remains maybe souls are just like glass more beautiful when stained a flower grows through a crack in the wall trying to reach the sun a babies born and lives to learn that we can rise above hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah suddenly salvation s all i see in the church of memories i m down on my knees begging someone please i m down on my knees in the church of memories here i stand on the corner of possibilities with a coffee cup half filled up and a pocket full of dreams