Living Proof

Well now on a summer night

In a dusky room

Come a little piece of the Lord's undying light

Crying like he swallowed the fiery moon

In his mother's arms

It was all the beauty I could take

Like the missing words to some prayer

That I could never make

In a world so hard and dirty

So fouled and confused

Searching for a little bit of God's mercy

I found living proof

I put my heart and soul

I put 'em high upon a shelf

Right next to the faith

The faith that I'd lost in myself

I went down into the desert city

Just tryin' so hard to shed my skin

I crawled deep into some kind of darkness

Lookin' to burn out every trace of

Who I'd been

You do some sad sad things baby

When it's you you're tryin' to lose

You do some sad and hurtful things

I've seen living proof

You shot through my anger and rage

To show me my prison

Was just an open cage

There were no keys no guards

Just one frightened man and

Some old shadows for bars

Well now all that's sure on the boulevard

Is that life is just a house of cards

As fragile as each and every breath

Of this boy sleepin' in our bed

Tonight let's lie beneath the eaves

Just a close band of happy thieves

And when that train comes

We'll get on board

And steal what we can from the treasures

Treasures of the Lord

It's been a long long drought baby

Tonight the rain's pourin' down on our roof

Looking for a little bit of God's mercy

I found living proof

I found living proof

I found living proof

I found living proof

I found living proof

I found living proof

I found living proof

I found living proof

I found living proof

I found living proof

I found living proof