A Hope For Home - Affliction: The Witness, The Advocate lyrics

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Assail me and tear me in your anger. <br />

All was once well with me, but I've lead myself here.<br />

My pride pulls. Constantly beckoning me to be something that I'm not.<br />

If I say: "My hope is in the grave" and to corruption, "You're my father."<br />

To the worm, "You're my mother" if my hope is in the grave, then what is left for me?<br />

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"Did you forget what it takes to walk away? And did you forget I will never take you past the palm of My hand?"<br />

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And I am overcome. What miserable comforters in the arms of sorrow.<br />

With every wound sanctity diminished. With every scar I feel my soul retreat.<br />

Oh earth, do not cover my blood.<br />

May my cries never be laid to rest.<br />

But if I speak, my pain will not be relieved, and if I refrain, it does not go away.<br />

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"Did you forget why I've put you here? And do you even want to know what it means to be alive?" <br />

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Have we forgotten? And what will be left?<br />

..the pull of my pride takes me away<br />