You Have To Be There [Du måste finnas] lyrics

You have banished me

From the land where I was born

Here I am forever more a stranger

Still I followed you undivided

First you killed my child

When her life had scarce begun

Now you want to tear me from my husband

Everywhere I turn it's darker still

What is it, Lord, that you want

And that I am not seeing?

What, in my ignorant prayers,

Am I failing to say?

Never before have I questioned

The truth of your being

Never once have I dared

Never until today

All of a tremble I stand

On the edge of confusion

Who is to save me

If into the darkness I fall?

Now that I need more than ever

My God to be near me

Do you hear when I call?

Are you there, after all?

You have to be there, you have to

My life I have placed in thy keep

And without you I am drifting

On a dark and stormy sea

You have to be there, you have to

Without you I drown in the deep

Too far, too far from land

The waters drag me down

I reach for thy hand

And when I die, will open

His arms to receive me?

Who will forgive me and take me

And show me his face?

Then when I have gone to my rest

Will you watch me and wake me?

When my time comes at last

Will you grant me your grace?

I am so small on this earth

I am nothing without you

Daring to doubt you at all

Is a knife to my heart

Little by little I'm losing my way

In the shadows

I am losing my hold

And the world falls apart

You have to be there, you have to

My life I have placed in thy keep

And without you I am drifting

On a dark and rising sea

You have to be there, you have to

Without you I drown in the deep

Too far, too far from land

The waters drag me down

I reach for your hand

You have to be there, you have to

Without you I drown in the deep

Too far, too far from land

The waters drag me down

I reach for your hand