Deliver Me - John Mark McMillan

The sun is leaning on the darkness again

And we sing

Oh, deliver me

I saw images of god

Reflected out upon the deep

By prehistoric stars

Through millennia of grief

Spiritless and haunted

Like some excarnate beast

Still I feel the ancient lights of heaven

Pressing down on me

And the day changes at midnight

But you don’t know it

Until the morning light

And the footsteps of the midwife

Are already in motion

And in motion we sing

Whoa, deliver me

Oh, deliver me, yeah

The sun is leaning on the darkness again

And we sing

Oh, deliver me

We traded souls

On the shoals of Babylon

When they bought yours down to the floor

Man, I was sure that mine was gone

Everything inside me

Wanted somewhere to belong

But something deep inside my body screamed

That all of this was wrong

And the day changes at midnight

Still you don’t know it

Until the morning light

And the footsteps of the midwife

Are already in motion

And in motion we sing

Whoa, deliver me

Oh, deliver me

Whoa, deliver me

Oh, deliver me

All my feelings are up on the ceiling

All my grieving, all my believing

All my feelings are up on the ceiling

All my feelings are up on the ceiling

All my feelings are up on the ceiling

All my grieving, all my believing

All my feelings are up on the ceiling

All my feelings are up on the ceiling

The sun is leaning on the darkness again

And we sing

Oh, deliver me

Every human creature is a galaxy of thought

You could spend your life on one

And it wouldn’t be for not

Do you look at many people

But you see so very few

From the disenchanted distance

It’s what desperate people do

Yeah but…

(Don't you know that)

All my feelings are up on the ceiling

All my grieving, all my believing

All my feelings are up on the ceiling

All my feelings are up on the ceiling

And the day changes at midnight

(All my feelings are up on the ceiling)

(All my grieving, all my believing)

(All my feelings are up on the ceiling)

Still you don’t know it

(All my feelings are up on the ceiling)

For another six hours

(All my feelings are up on the ceiling)

And the footsteps of the midwife

(All my grieving, all my believing)

(All my feelings are up on the ceiling)

Are already in motion

(All my feelings are up on the ceiling)

And in motion we sing

Whoa, deliver me

Oh, deliver me, yeah

The sun is leaning on the darkness again

And we sing

Oh, deliver me