running through my head

I am the only one to blame for this
Somehow it all adds up the same
Soaring on the wings of selfish pride, I flew too high
and like Icarus I collide
With a world I try so hard to leave behind
To rid myself of all but love
to give and die
To turn away and not become another nail to pierce the skin of one who loves
more deeply than the oceans,
more abundant than the tears of a world embracing every heartache

Can I be the one to sacrifice?
Or grip the spear and watch the blood and water flow?

To love you - take my world apart
To need you - I am on my knees
To love you - take my world apart
To need you - broken on my knees

All said and done I stand alone amongst remains of a life I should not own
It takes all I am to believe in the mercy that covers me

Did you really have to die for me?
All I am for all you are because what I need and what I believe are worlds apart

I look beyond the empty cross, forgetting what my life has cost
and wipe away the crimson stains
and dull the nails that still remain

More and more I need you now
I owe you more each passing hour
the battle between grace and prideI gave up not so long ago

So steal my heart and take the pain
and wash the feet and cleanse my pride
Take the selfish, take the weak, and all the things I cannot hide

Take the beauty, take my tears
the sin-soaked heart and make it yours
take my world all apart
take it now, take it now
and serve the ones that I despise
speak the words I can't deny
watch the world I used to love fall to dust and thrown away