Prayer in Open D - Shannon McNally

There’s a valley of sorrow in my soul

Where every night I hear the thunder roll

Like the sound of a distant gun

Over all the damage I have done

And the shadows fillin' up this land

Are the ones I built with my own hands

There is no comfort from the cold

Of this valley of sorrow in my soul

There’s a river of darkness in my blood

Through every vein, I feel the flood

I can find no bridge to cross

No way to bring back what was lost

Into the night, it’s always sweet

Down where all my grievances I keep

But it won’t wash away the years

A one single heart and bitter tear

In the rock of ages I have known

Is a weariness down in my bones

Used to ride it like a rolling stone

Now I just carry the load

There’s a highway rising from my dreams

Deep in the heart I know it gleams

For I have seen it stretching wide

Clear on across to the other side

Beyond the river and the flood

And the valley where for so long I stood

With the rock of ages in my bones

Someday, I know it will lead me home