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"Why Am I Leaving" Lyrics [edit]
by Brian Doerksen | from the album Prodigal God
 

THE YOUNGER SON Why am I leaving?
Why do I ask so much?
THE SERVANT Have you become a man?
THE YOUNGER SON Where will leaving lead?
THE SERVANT You don’t know the way
THE YOUNGER SON & THE SERVANT Will I
you ever return?
THE SERVANT Why are you leaving?
Because you want it all
THE YOUNGER SON That’s how I’ve always been
THE SERVANT One day you’ll return
THE YOUNGER SON That’s all I know to do
THE YOUNGER SON & THE SERVANT But will you
I ever learn?
THE SERVANT’S DAUGHTER Ooh, ahh
THE FATHER You may never understand
Why a man will do what he will do
He can’t see the price he’ll pay
His pride will keep his pain at bay
THE ELDER SON Yesterday I had the whole world
A father, brother, wife and a future
Now I’ve lost it all in a single day
So why am I staying?
THE ELDER SON & THE SERVANT’S DAUGHTER Why am I staying?
THE YOUNGER SON There are moments I can’t bear to be alive
It’s too powerful, it’s too terrible
Hear the howling in my brain, feel the growling in my heart
It’s so powerful, it’s so wonderful
THE FATHER God in heaven, hear my prayer
THE YOUNGER SON I’m scared to say what we both know
THE FATHER Is now the time to let them go?
THE YOUNGER SON No good can come from what I’ve done
THE FATHER My voice upraised could stop them cold
THE YOUNGER SON But I’m too crazed to turn back now
THE FATHER And freeze the blood of love’s free flow
THE YOUNGER SON Why can’t I stop myself? Why can’t I stop myself?
THE TOWNSFOLK What a tragedy, what a terrible scene
The house of Provision is now called the house of grief
The irrational father has given as if he were dead
Because of his foolishness
We’re left with nothing but dread
THE YOUNGER SON Why am I leaving?
THE ELDER SON Why am I staying?

+ Entry lasted edited by liveheart on 01.07.18

 


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