Empty Ushering Silence

The wooden pews are cold against my palms

Dust hangs suspended in the morning light

I came here searching for a quiet calm

To make it through another hollow night (mm-mm)

I count the stained-glass colors on the floor

And trace the silent outlines of your face

I never knew the closing of a

door

Could leave behind so permanent a space

Forgive me for the words I kept inside

Before the winter turned the water

cold

I held my silence like a piece of pride

And lost the only hand I had to hold (ah-ah)

A single candle flickers by the nave

I whisper questions only silence knows

No holy water washed the debt

you gave

No sacred incense covers where it

goes

If heaven listens to a broken boy

Beneath these vaulted arches made of stone

Let every prayer I gave to keep your joy

Remind the dark that I am not alone

Forgive me for the words I kept inside

Before the winter turned the water cold

I held my silence like a piece of pride

And lost the only hand I had to

hold (ooh-ooh)

Amen.