Questions - Jon McLaughlin

Katie stands at the top of the stairs

As she’s leaving her father stares

What has she come to

Another boy she runs to tonight

Powerless he just shakes his head

Disapointed and off to bed

He won’t be sleeping

Cause the hours she’s keeping

Are not right

She’s asking a question

How will I be

After this next on eventually leaves me

And how can a man

Be all that they say

When all that i know

Is men run away

I think I lose just a little bit of me

In every man that I see

Danny’s been out for seven days

Funny how he thought the price had been paid

On a past he hates to talk about

It’s everything wrong about him

He goes back home to a battle field

Starts to drink as some kind of a shield

For the anger instilled in him

Their looks are killing him now

He’s asking a question

How will I be

When it comes down to the end

And memories still haunt me

How can he have forgiveness that flows

When no one forgives him

Yet it’s Jesus they know

I think I lose just a little bit of me

In this family that won’t see

A crowed of confusion gathers round

Watching the light as he slowly goes out

After all they’ve talked about

Everything’s coming out now

The anger turns to dead and gone

Heart’s start to feel what feels so wrong

And as the time starts passing by

Hours turn to days in their heads

And they can still hear him say

I came for your questions

Of what you don’t know

But you can’t see the answers

Unless I go

So give me your hatred

And give me your diseased

Give me your tired

And I’ll take them with me

Cause I’m hanging here

Losing every part of me

Just to open your eyes

To what you will never see

And to answer you questions

Cause there’s no place I’d rather be