Desperation Part IV

[m/l van Dyk]
 Johnny knows why he was spared in Vietnam
 God has a reason for his sacrifice
 Johnny knows David thinks it all will fall on him
 But the message is clear and he knows he has a purpose
 The writer descends into the heart of the mine
 Down to the bottom of the well of souls
 Falling through darkness, bloodied and broken
 He spreads the explosives as death takes hold
 Johnny stands a final time as his life slips away
 Tak screams in anger and commands that he stop
 But the heart of the unformed can no longer sway him
 And he finishes his life's last task
 God can be everything, God can be cruel
 Sometimes He makes us live
 Carrying a burden for thirty three years
 They are no longer his sins to forgive
 With the smoke of the ini rising up in the sky
 Destroyed by the power of daylight
 The four survivors leave the nightmare behind them
 And head toward the open highway
 In the back of the car sits a folder of photos
 Materializ4ed out of nowhere
 The handwritten label says they're from David's school
 But the writing is in Johnny's hand
 Two different lives. somehow intertwined
 Two vantage points of a parallax view
 Heaven and Earth, somehow connected
 Giving a glimpse of the eternal truth
 As he opened the folder, and pulls out the picture
 Young David Carver's astonished
 The picture's of Johnny and David's dead sister
 Although they have never met
 In the picture they're standing on the very street
 Where David's friend Brian lay dying in his arms
 Written at their feet, are the words First John 4/8
 And Mary asks David what it means.
 God is Love
 God can be everything, God can be cruel
 Sometimes He makes us live
 Carrying a burden for thirty three years
 They are no longer his sins to forgive
 God can be everything, God can be cruel
 Sometimes He makes us live
 Carrying a burden for thirty three years
 They are no longer his sins to forgive