[Verse 1] Oh, Sweet Jesus - where were You? Sleepless nights in a war-torn home with drugs and booze Mama high, and Daddy too God knows I needed someone I could hold on to So I ran - and I keep runnin’ still Tryin’ to outpace the pain they tried to kill From children’s homes to red-lit streets I was just a kid with bloodied feet I reached out, but no hand would hold Felt like You left me, just like I was told [Pre-Chorus] But even then, a whisper grew Soft and low - “I never left you…” [Chorus] Oh Sweet Jesus, I see it now You were in the silence, showin’ me how Every bruise, every night I cried You were layin’ tracks on the road I’d ride Thought I was abandoned, broken, done But You were lightin’ fires, one by one Now I reach out with the hands You healed To lift up hearts this world tried to steal [Verse 2] You were there in the shelter light In the stranger’s kindness late at night In the halfway house, in the cold night air I cursed Your name, but You were always there Now I walk where I once fell Turnin’ hard-earned hurt into a story to tell To the runaways, to the bruised and used I bring the grace I once refused [Bridge] They say the light cuts deepest through the dark And I carry that flame in a battle-scarred heart Not in stained glass, not in choir songs But in the places You were with me all along [Final Chorus] Oh Sweet Jesus, I walk with You Down dirt roads and shelters too You turned my wounds into working hands And taught me how a lost soul stands I once was blind, but now I see You never left - You carried me Now I’m the voice, the hand, the light For the ones still lost in the dead of night [Outro] Sweet Jesus… You were there all along.
