I have heard the slander of many,
|
Terror on every side.
|
While they council together against me,
|
A scheme to take away my life.
|
|
I am small, concealed in this darkness,
|
Yearning to see the light, but I may never
|
Because of the heartless attempt
|
To take away my life.
|
|
Am I safe? The water around me
|
Is changing. Is it allright?
|
I am burning. Oh what are they doing?
|
They want to take away my life.
|
|
But as for me, I trust in Thee,
|
Oh, Lord, my times are in Your hands.
|
You are my God, deliver me
|
From the solution that they have planned.
|
|
I'm condemned, completely unwanted,
|
I struggle to stay inside,
|
Oh, my dear mother, your future is haunted,
|
If they succeed and take away my life.
|
|
I'm cut off, exposed in this cold room,
|
|
For love and warmth I strive, will you discard me,
|
Throw away or starve me,
|
And slowly drain away my life.
|
|
But as for me, I trust in Thee,
|
Oh, Lord, my times are in Your hands.
|
You are my God, deliver me
|
From the solution that they have planned.
|
|
Desperate hands reach out to embrace me,
|
And steal away in the night,
|
A gentle voice is speaking assuringly,
|
No one will take away your life.
|
|
Now I am one apart from the millions
|
Fortunate to survive.
|
And though I bear on my body these old wounds,
|
They didn't take away my life.
|
|
But as for me, I trust in Thee,
|
Oh, Lord, my times are in Your hands.
|
You are my God, deliver me
|
From the solution that they have planned.
|
|
-----------------
|
The Survivor
|
| Phil Keaggy |
