Come Back Soon Lyrics - Light For The Lost Boy - Andrew Peterson

I remember the day of the Tennessee flood 

The sound of the scream and the sight of the blood 

My son, he saw as the animal died 

In the jaws of the dog as the river ran by 

I said, "Come back soon" 

It's there on the page of the book that I read 

The boy grew up and the yearling was dead 

He stood at the gate with the angel on guard 

And wept for the death of his little boy heart 

I say, "Come back soon." 

We wake in the night in the womb of the world 

We beat our fists on the door 

We cannot breathe in this sea that swirls 

So we groan in this great darkness 

For deliverance, deliverance, oh, Lord 

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I sit on the bench at the bend in the trail 

And I can feel in the fall the final exhale 

The trees of the field all wring their hands 

And the leaves go by like a funeral band 

I say, "Come back soon" 

We wake in the night in the womb of the world 

We beat our fists on the door 

We cannot breathe in this sea that swirls 

So we groan in this great darkness 

Are we alone in this great darkness? 

If nature's red in tooth and in claw 

Then it seems to me that she's an outlaw 

'Cause every death is a question mark 

At the end of the book of a beating heart 

And the answer is scrawled in the silent dark 

Photos 

On the dome of the sky in a billion stars 

But we cannot read these angel tongues 

And we cannot stare at the burning sun 

And we cannot sing with these broken lungs 

So we kick in the womb and we beg to be born 

Deliverance, deliverance, oh Lord