Beloved - Intellectual

[Verse 1]

There are no nights now

When I don't I dream and wake in the darkness

To find I've been weeping

But it has been ages

Since I've cried while awake

Cause centuries wear on the heart

They erode it away

I'm still trying to record each word You spoke

And if I finish I'll fill up this earth

But the memory of Your voice leaves me empty

Cause I've been banished and boiled alive

And yet I remain

And they still call me by name

But they don't say it the same

I watched all of my brothers

Become martyrs and die one at a time

But I often wonder if waiting for You is the harder sacrifice

I may be feeble and barely alive

But I've yet to forget a single word that You said

If my voice breaks down

And all of the strength gives out

And I'm just a shell left breathing my last days out

(Let if be known) that time is a thief who surely steals everything

But in my case it just cleaned out the waste for me

Nothing has dimmed;

You have simply eclipsed all that stood in the way

I'd give 20 more lifetimes;

It would all be the same

In the end, I know I'll find You will come once again

You'll come call me by name