When I Don't Have the Words Lyrics

It's been a while I'll admit since I've com knocking at your door

I guess that I had just stopped trying when it was locked before

I thought I knew you in the words I read, the shrill and sweet refrains

But they were painted like your pictures and they were shattered in their frames

How can you build up when it's broken down

How can you grow when it burns

How does a river flow when it's dried up and empty

And how can I write you when I don't have the words

Maybe you are more than what is written on the pages

Maybe you're the pages that it is written on

Maybe you're the voice that isn't fitting in the choir

Cause maybe just our voices is your favorite song

How can you build up when it's broken down

How can you grow when it burns

How does a river flow when it's dried up and empty

And how can I write you when I don't have the words

There are permanent question there are things we'll never know

There's a doubting in your heart even when the Bible tells you so

But there's a steady fire burning in a lantern on a hill

And a part of me is yearning to keep learning still

Cause we're a firm foundation when we're broken down

We'll rise from the ashes where we've burned

We're soil for planting when we're dried up and empty

And we listen closely when we don't have the words

We listen closely when we don't have the words