The Back Side of the Dawn

 

The Back Side of the Dawn

What do you do when you can’t just let it go

When it feels like you may have reached further

than the space you thought you had to grow

When the cut’s so deep that scar will always show

Hold on, oh Hold on

On the edge of the world and your eyes are filled with dust

Can’t even cry, those tears just plumb gave up. 

Headed into the dusk knowing the night will come on strong

Sometimes its the simple things that seem to go so wrong

But the darkness of the eclipse can’t hold forever

So if your grip is slipping and you can barely keep it together

Hold on, oh hold on 

It’s on the back side of the dawn

Where suffering is finished

On the back side of the dawn

Where sin will finally perish

The grime that festered in the dark

the light will wash away

On the back side of the dawn

What do you do when twilights shadow casts so long,

 it can get so cold and the hills can feel so tall

And your lungs ache, it’s a wonder you can breath at all,

Suffocating at the speed of free fall,

It’s seems the sun’s the only thing that won’t break

And you wonder how life will go on,

Hold on, oh hold on.

When it seems the deep black of midnight 

threatens everything you know

And the battle isn’t going how you thought it would go

When every piece of who you are’s been battered,

When violence and the hurting make you feel this desperate hour

When the precipice you’re on keeps hope just out of view

And just holding still takes every remaining bit of power

waiting for the sun to make things new

Hold on, oh hold on

On the back side of the dawn

Where suffering is finished

On the back side of the dawn

Where sin will finally perish

The grime that festered in the dark

the light will wash away

On the back side of the dawn

The horizon shows the signs

Of the light that’s soon to come

No doubt there’s some hard things

That leave us longing for hope

the savior won’t be deterred

When the light over the clouds comes shining through

And evil at last is conquered

On the back side of the dawn

On the back side of the dawn

Where suffering is finished

On the back side of the dawn

Where sin will finally perish

The grime that festered in the dark

the light will wash away

On the back side of the dawn

So hold on, oh hold on

The light will vanquish the shadows

On the back side of the dawn