Shine Your Light On Me - Andrew Peterson

I remember once I broke down in the country

I was sixteen with a broken heart in bloom

And I walked home through the pines

Nobody saw me but the moon

By sunrise I could hear the church bells ringing

I got there as the saints were marching in

I sat down on the back row

And heard the story once again

And the servants of the secret fire

Were gathered there

The embers of the ages

Like a living prayer

And all at once I saw the shadows flee

Shine your light on me, on me

Be a light unto my path

And a lamp unto my feet

They flew us down to Oklahoma city

Yeah, but I could hardly stand there on the stage

So sick I couldn’t speak

And the fever wouldn’t break

But when I stepped up to the microphone I heard it

It was the voices of the brothers at my side

They were singing out my song

When the song in me had died

Oh, shine your light on me

Somebody come and get me when I’m gone (me when I’m gone, gone, gone, gone)

Somebody come and get me when I’m gone (me when I’m)

Two years ago I drove into a darkness

I straightened every curve on Cane Ridge Road

And I could hear the flapping wings

Of every devil I have known

And the inside of my car was like a casket

But then it flooded with a blaze of sacred light

She was calling me back home

And as I pulled into the drive

I knew the servants of the secret fire

Were gathered there

The embers of the ages

Like a living prayer

She was standing on the porch where I could see

Shine your light on me, on me

Be a light unto my path

And a lamp unto my feet