Every Grain of Sand

Lyrics:

• In the time of my confession, in the hour of my deepest need
• When the pool of tears beneath my feet flood every newborn seed
• There's a dying voice within me reaching out somewhere
• Toiling in the danger and in the morals of despair.


• Don't have the inclination to look back on any mistake
• Like Cain, I now behold this chain of events that I must break
• In the fury of the moment I can see the master's hand
• In every leaf that trembles, in every grain of sand.


• Oh, the flowers of indulgence and the weeds of yesteryear
• Like criminals, they have choked the breath of conscience and good cheer
• The sun beat down upon the steps of time to light the way
• To ease the pain of idleness and the memory of decay.


• I gaze into the doorway of temptation's angry flame
• And every time I pass that way I always hear my name
• Then onward in my journey I come to understand
• That every hair is numbered like every grain of sand.


• I have gone from rags to riches in the sorrow of the night
• In the violence of a summer's dream, in the chill of a wintry light
• In the bitter dance of loneliness fading into space
• In the broken mirror of innocence on each forgotten face.


• I hear the ancient footsteps like the motion of the sea
• Sometimes I turn, there's someone there, other time it's only me
• I am hanging in the balance of the reality of man
• Like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.