Shine Your Light

I woke up one night I knew something was brewing I opened my window And saw a stranger a'wooing This tailored woman With an absent smile Now, she cut him off Cold, belligerent style I put on my pants My boots and my grey coat I fled the bustling city Sweating bullets like the ancient scapegoat With the lights all behind me I felt my breath anew I saw this sudden light And had this vision too Shine your light on me again On a crooked highway I met a wrong-eyed woman She looked like a crow The bird of ill omen In sackcloth and ashes She shook the dust off her feet "Now ain't you coming, boy," she said "Away from all this conceit" "There's no more holy It's been replaced with pride The human mind is Cold and fortified Nobody's humble Nobody's sound Nobody here," she said, "is but about to drown" "Now God ain't dead," she said And she shook her head And I felt the dread Of her breath like lead On me, all on me "Now, does it make you a lesser man If in His shadow you stand And you raise your hand To the mighty band Above, above your head?" Shine your light on me again --- Shine Your Light - Johnny Red & the Prayerhouse People