you have banished me from the land where i was born here upon a foreign shore forsaken i have followed you and gone thy way 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 and that i am not seeing what in my innocent prayers am i failing to say never before have i questioned the truth of your being never once have i 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 lord 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 am 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 and when i go to my rest who will watch me and wake me when my time comes at last will you grant me your grace i am so small of this earth i am nothing without you daring to doubt you at all turns a knife in my heart little by little i m losing my way in the shadows i am losing my home and the world fall apart you do have to be there you have to my life i have placed in thy keep and without you i am 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 and without you i am 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