Roaring Thunder - John Mark McMillan

You play my world like a song

Like a ghost who walks

In and out of my dreams

And cascades down my walls

With the laughter of children

And all their reckless wild things

Beneath the sound of consummate joy

I’m running over everything I tell myself

Like I could help but avoid

Running back the story that I sell myself on

From now on

Everything that happens

Will happen in the shadow of you

You walked into the room

Like roaring thunder

You terrify me with ease

And defy all my thoughts

That somehow still want to believe

That I could ever be free

On the wandering planes

Or the waves of my wide open seas

Are you terraforming my heart

Cause I’m running over everything I tell myself

Am I a fool from the start

Running back the stories that I sell myself on

From now on

Everything that happens

Will happen in the shadow of you

You walked into the room

Like roaring thunder

You flood my house

And the walls are turned out

With every echo of you

And I feel the tremors in my body now

Like roaring thunder

I never could’ve made you up

With my wildest fabrication

I never could’ve made you up

With a mile of imagination

With all the colors of a revelation

Still I never could’ve dreamed you up

I never could’ve thought of you

You walked into the room

Like roaring thunder