Shelter from the Storm

'Twas in another lifetime, one of toil and blood

When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud

I came in through the wilderness, a creature void of form

"Come in", she said, "I'll give you shelter from the storm"

And if I pass this way again, oh, you can rest assured

I'll always do my best for her, and on that I give my word

In a world of steel-eyed death, and men who are fighting to be warm

"Come in", she said, "I'll give you shelter from the storm"

I was burned out from exhaustion and buried in the hail

Poisoned in the bushes and blown out on the trail

I was hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn

"Come in", she said, "I'll give you shelter from the storm"

And suddenly I turned around, and she was standing there

With silver bracelets on her wrists and flowers in her hair

She walked up to me so gracefully and she took my crown of thorns

"Come in", she said, "I'll give you shelter from the storm"

Now there's a wall between us and something there's been lost

I took too much for granted and I got my signals crossed

Just to think that it all began on an uneventful morn

"Come in", she said, "I'll give you shelter from the storm"

And I've heard newborn babies wailing like a mourning dove

And old men with broken teeth stranded without love

Do I understand your question, man, is it hopeless and forlorn?

"Come in", she said, "I'll give you shelter from the storm"

And now the bonds are broken, but they can be retied

By one more journey to the woods, the holes where spirits hide

It's a never-ending battle for a peace that's always torn

"Come in", she said, "I'll give you shelter from the storm"

"Come in", she said, "I'll give you shelter from the storm"

"Come in", she said, "I'll give you shelter from the storm"