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
