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Draw Back Your Hands

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Father, don't welcome me home I've lost the way, these years alone Maybe your voice grew too weak To muster succor's arms I sing the faith held holy in the old days Just like the wounded in sight I am the death of pride and Lucifer A guide in sense and parable size I always knew somehow that it would be like this The bitter spoils are harder won and I never won for it Dusk winter like garden on edge Eyes alight with stars Pay no mention to the absent light Equate the blackness with hope No frail forgiveness, no blinding light Just the cloaked and quiet and the veiled voice No frail forgiveness, no blinding light Just the cloaked and quiet and the veiled voice A quarter century awake And not a trace of that promised embrace I have watched my closest leave with love in their hearts But have not felt a thing I'm told that acceptance will take The bulk of what burdens me But I've been finding that it's me who determines my fate And chose to make the world a bitter place Father Father Father I always knew it would be like this Father Father Father Don't welcome me home Father Somehow I always knew, somehow I always knew Father Don't welcome me home Father A quarter century awake And not a trace of that promised embrace I have watched my closest leave with the love in their hearts But have not felt a thing