A Captured Love

You lay within his arms again, you lay within his bed.
His chilling smile, his alluring style, fills me still with dread.
You sport the bruises of his 'love' and bleed it out the more.
You call him 'love', you call him 'dove', he only calls you whore

"He beats you and mistreats you in the name of love alone,
But my love is sure, my love is pure and forever will atone.
He hates you, yes! berates you 'cause he has no love at all!
But my love refines, my love's divine and saves you from the fall."

You say the tears are poetic and they represent your joy
But he hits you still, until you feel nothing to enjoy
You sing to him to cover all the rights and all the wrongs
But listen please, I beg, I plead do listen to my song

"He beats you and mistreats you in the name of love alone,
But my love is sure, my love is pure and forever will atone.
He hates you, yes! berates you 'cause he has no love at all!
But my love refines, my love's divine and saves you from the fall."

So heed my call and listen to my alluring, loving song
Don't be swayed, he will betray with every single wrong.
He longs for you, he longs to be the beautiful one I am
In his pride, he can't but die and forever be but damned.

"He beats you and mistreats you in the name of love alone,
But my love is sure, my love is pure and forever will atone.
He hates you, yes! berates you 'cause he has no love at all!
But my love refines, my love's divine and saves you from the fall."

So I give myself to ransom you from his deathly hold
I'll give myself to take your hell and make your chains to gold.
He'll take my life and with it he'll believe that he was won
But with my death, I know it best, I'll have you as my love

"He beats you and mistreats you in the name of love alone,
But my love is sure, my love is pure and forever will atone.
He hates you, yes! berates you 'cause he has no love at all!
But my love refines, my love's divine and saves you from the fall."

So come to me and let me whisper words of love and life.
How with my blood, and with my love I captured you from strife.
I defeated him who only wanted you for death itself.
I pulled you out and without a doubt I took away your Hell.

"He beats you and mistreats you in the name of love alone,
But my love is sure, my love is pure and forever will atone.
He hates you, yes! berates you 'cause he has no love at all!
But my love refines, my love's divine and saves you from the fall."

I Walk This Road Alone

I walk this road alone,
Hand in my Father's Hand.
I feel the fear and strangness
of a harsh, unfeeling land.

I sought to find my peace,
I sought to find my bliss.
But everything I ever sought
is all that I now miss.

I wanted you beside me
yet I pushed you further still.
Now I walk an empty valley,
dreading the mountain's hill.

But I walk this road alone,
Hand in my Father's Hand
Despite the fear and strangness
of this harsh, unfeeling land.

I know not the end of time,
or where this road will lead.
I know not how long I tarry,
with feet that start to bleed.

The One who leads me onward
Will lead me where He must.
Perhaps it's on to happiness,
Or perhaps I must be crushed.

So I walk this road alone,
Hand in my Father's Hand
Bearing the fear and strangness
of this harsh, unfeeling land

I've made so many wrongs,
these mistakes that I must bear.
Time will heal the brokeness,
but scars remain so bare

Because I fall and trip
When I seek my own way.
So I must choose the path
That I will walk today.

Will I walk this road alone,
Hand in my Father's Hand?
Through the fear and strangness
of a harsh, unfeeling land?

Will I wander to the left
to find that I can only kill
The things my Father gives me
to make me happy still?

Or will I stray to the right
and gather my demise,
by thinking that my happiness
lies in pain-filled eyes?

I will walk this road alone,
Hand in my Father's Hand.
And Hope, despite the fear,
despite this strange, unfeeling land.

I hope our paths converge again
and I would make you happy still.
But all I ever do is crush you
until you can no more feel.

I don't know what to say to you
I don't know what to do.
If I could have the world,
my friend, I'd ask for you.

God, help me as I walk this road,
hand nestled within your own.
Speak words of comfort to your son,
as we walk this path alone.