Stone - Michael Sweet

All my life I spent, running from my fears

Away from all the pain, the pain that I’ve left behind

There’s wounded everywhere, but I’m to hard to care

They melt into the face of who I trust in

I am beat, and I’m so tired of trying

For a chance to earn grace all alone

I am stone, I’m smiling, living, loving, dying

There ain’t much more than what you can see

Deep inside I’m crying, for what I keep denying

For that’s the very thing that sets me free

I waste so much time, feeding on self pride

My own depravity is all that I can see

So then I try to hide, the clothes of skin God’s made

I lay them on a shelf, and slowly they fade

I am beat, and I’m so tired of trying

For a chance to earn grace all alone

I am stone, I’m smiling, living, loving, dying

There ain’t much more than what you can see

Deep inside I’m crying, for what I keep denying

For that’s the very thing that sets me free