by Billie_Sue » Tue Feb 23, 2010 11:18 pm
Hope this is what your looking for. God bless.
PRAYING
NOT LONG AGO,
I WAS THINKING OF HOME.
AND I WONDERED IF MAMA,
WAS THERE ALL ALONE
I THOUGHT I'D DROP BY, AS I HAD BEFORE.
BUT THE SOUND FROM WITHIN
MADE ME STOP AT THE DOOR
SHE WAS PRAYING,
A SOUND THAT THE WORLD SELDOM HEARS
PRAYING HER WORDS WERE
PLEADING AND CLEAR.
THE SOUND OF HER VOICE,
AS SHE SPOKE MY NAME.
BROUGHT TEARS TO MY EYES,
MY HEART FILLED WITH SHAME.
PRAYING, PRAYING FOR SOMEONE LIKE ME.
I WAS WALKING ONE NIGHT,
I FELT SO ALONE,
MY HEART WAS SO HEAVY
FROM THE TROUBLE I'D KNOWN.
I HADN'T NOTICED A CHURCH THAT WAS NEAR,
TILL THE SOUND FROM WITHIN
SEEMED TO FILL THE AIR.
THEY WERE PRAYING,
A SOUND THAT THE WORLD SELDOM HEARS
PRAYING THE CHILDREN
THAT GOD LOVES SO DEAR.
OUTSIDE IN THE DARKNESS,
I COULD NOT SEE
BUT I COULD PICTURE THEM
DOWN ON THEIR KNEES,
PRAYING, PRAYING FOR SOME ONE LIKE ME.
Hope this is what your looking for. God bless.
PRAYING
NOT LONG AGO,
I WAS THINKING OF HOME.
AND I WONDERED IF MAMA,
WAS THERE ALL ALONE
I THOUGHT I'D DROP BY, AS I HAD BEFORE.
BUT THE SOUND FROM WITHIN
MADE ME STOP AT THE DOOR
SHE WAS PRAYING,
A SOUND THAT THE WORLD SELDOM HEARS
PRAYING HER WORDS WERE
PLEADING AND CLEAR.
THE SOUND OF HER VOICE,
AS SHE SPOKE MY NAME.
BROUGHT TEARS TO MY EYES,
MY HEART FILLED WITH SHAME.
PRAYING, PRAYING FOR SOMEONE LIKE ME.
I WAS WALKING ONE NIGHT,
I FELT SO ALONE,
MY HEART WAS SO HEAVY
FROM THE TROUBLE I'D KNOWN.
I HADN'T NOTICED A CHURCH THAT WAS NEAR,
TILL THE SOUND FROM WITHIN
SEEMED TO FILL THE AIR.
THEY WERE PRAYING,
A SOUND THAT THE WORLD SELDOM HEARS
PRAYING THE CHILDREN
THAT GOD LOVES SO DEAR.
OUTSIDE IN THE DARKNESS,
I COULD NOT SEE
BUT I COULD PICTURE THEM
DOWN ON THEIR KNEES,
PRAYING, PRAYING FOR SOME ONE LIKE ME.