The Doctor and the Reverend

The doctor and the reverend, one in black and one in white

One's fighting for the truth and one's fighting for what's right

They'll heal your body and they'll heal your soul

One's there when you're dying and one's there when you go

The reverend's fought the hardest fight, he's lost half his weight

The doctor's off the wagon, they're yet to set him straight

He's seen too much and he knows too little

He's been dreaming that he might stop it all

"Take the leap", said the reverend "Come and take my hand

Then you'll stop seeing and you'll understand"

"I want to know, but I still have to see

The suffering of others but who will pray for me?"

The sermon being said, he walked out the door

Took of his collar said "I can't take much more

Of the talking and the praying, it doesn't seem to do much good

I've done all that I can do and the wrong's done all that it could"

His head was in his hands when the doctor came to see

"Do you remember those words you said to me?

Who will save the saviours when the road has been too long?

And you can't save anyone who walks the road alone"