I'm trying to discern. I want to learn.
I end up burning with the rest.
I can breathe under the water
but the fire is the test.
Under the curse; my heart perverse;
my spirit eternally blessed.
I beg for strength to run this race
but all my body wants is rest.

So as you wash me in your everlasting
rain, and when you feel my heart begin  
to drift away, and when my feelings
forget their place: Break me from these chains.

I've lived for so long dodging raindrops
but my clothes are soaking wet.
I've crossed the country on these train
tracks and seen my share of train wrecks.
I write a verse; another purse forgets
the weight of a paycheck.
I beg for grace. What can I say?
Your mercy is all that I have left.

So as you wash me in your
everlasting rain: Break me.
And when you feel my heart
begin to slip away: Take me.
I've lived for so long in the
shadow of this pain;
break these chains.

Another year, another tear, another
jar to put them in.
How I have tried to become pious,
still I'm tied to all my sin.
Another forked road and I don't know
where the highway will begin.
Another storm; another normal day
of chasing after wind.

So as you talk me through another
empty day: Break me.
And when I close my ears and push
your hand away: Take me.
I've lived for so long with this
bondage to decay...

So when you see me start to walk another way,
and my emotions take a bigger part, than what
they're meant to play, and when you hear the
fears surround me here which I cannot contain:
Break me from these chains.