God Could Keep Me Safe (But He Won't) Lyrics

It is a hard life

When you're rankled by disease

When your family's on their knees

Like they're looking for clover

And it is confounding

When all the preachers on tv

Say, As you wish it, so you'll see

And the lies make you sober

I try not to despair

I hope that the LORD might care

And God could keep me safe

But I notice that he won't

And though I wane from day to day

I am not alone, I am not alone

How do I listen

To all the horror in the earth?

There never seems to be a birth

Doesn't end with a killing

What is required

Of one suffering little soul?

When your shepherd lets that hole

Just sit without filling?

And when life is all a mess

He'll still search for faithfulness

And God could keep me safe

But I notice that He won't

For though I run from pain

My older Brother don't, my older Brother don't

He sung and prayed and cried

He mourned and bled and then He died

We must have no fear to begin

Cause we're gonna look just like him

And if Jesus despaired on the cross,

Well friend, I, too, must suffer loss

And if this suffering please the Lord

May He receive His just reward

When I'm surrounded

With my fears on every side

With nowhere to run and hide

And my flesh and heart fail me

I know the Judge

Is the only hope I got

All my other loves were shot

Lest they rise up and jail me

If He truly has the words of life

Where else to turn in dread and strife?

And God could keep me safe

But I believe he won't

For though I die on Jordan's shore

My Friend will lead me home

My God, My Friend will lead me home