I Don't Know
Clearly undeserving are you of this fate
All you could have done 'd have been too late
Blind and random chances caught you unaware
Seems we all do time for being there
And you wonder why your light has gone away
And you wonder if you'll last another day
And the rain keeps falling down
And your head keeps spinnin' round
And you scream without a sound

I don't know why the rain falls down
On a drowning man tryin' to reach the ground
I don't know why the cold winds blow
Why the hard times come, where the good times go
I don't know why the sky turns grey
'till the lightning strikes on a cloudless day
I don't know why the lights go out
'till you're lost in shadows of your doubt
I don't know

Everything you hoped for up until this day
Slips through fingers folded as you pray
Once the water rises 'till your stilts have washed away
Seems the comin' storms will blow your way
And you wonder what became of all your friends
And you wonder if you'll see the sun again
But you're seen through unseen eyes
Of Him who tells no lies
Who knows the tears you cry

I don't know how the wheel will spin
Why your ship goes down when it's comin’ in
I don't know how the pages turn
Why we blow to dust while the ashes burn
I don't know if our dreams just fade
Or if nightmares rise from the beds we've made
I don't know why the sun goes down
If you hang in tough, it'll come back around

I don't know

You're reaping though you did not sow this seed
So, in our dance with circumstance
Who leads?
But you're seen through unseen eyes
Of Him Who tells no lies
Who knows the tears you cry

I don't know why you bear this load
While you make your way down the narrow road
I don't know why your walls fall down
Why the seed you sow never breaks the ground
I don't know where the angels fly
When the Truth we love seems a twisted lie
I don't know if the end is near
But like you, sometimes I wish it were here
I don't know

Clearly undeserving are you of this fate

--Lyrics by Curt Emich