i remember the branches breaking under our weight a foreshadowing we couldn't translate we were reaching for a heaven we could build with our own hands but the splinters were a sermon we refused to understand you miss the ghost of what we were a faded photograph, a sepia blur but that ghost can't save you when the color drains from the world and the silence is a violence, a flag of truce unfurled our good times were a fragile truce and prescription for a deeper truth that mountain climbs and saving lives are meaningless games we play to distract us from the coming of a judgment day i see the rot beneath the fantasy the smiling idols of you and me we were never meant to be each other's god, each other's grace just another broken vessel in a fallen place you want to know what we are now? we're sinners standing on common ground and i won't play the game of "what if" and "what could have been" with the one who holds the stars this isn't quits it's a surrender and i will carry your burdens, i will shoulder your despair i'll sit with you in sackcloth, i'll lift your soul in prayer this is the law of christ, the love we're commanded to show to walk with you through deserts where nothing seems to grow it’s heavier than heartbreak, this ministry of pain to wash each other's feet in the acid of the rain but we were called to this, to bear the crushing weight not to abandon so forget the drives, forget the outback dreams they were cisterns leaking at the seams the only adventure that matters now is the one we walk by faith a ragged, scarred, and holy love that triumphs over death i don't want the best memories to look back on with you i want a future sanctified, honest, and brutally true built not on shifting feelings, but on the unmoving rock a life laid down, a cross picked up, a race against the clock to love you not as my savior, but my family in the FIGHT and i will carry your burdens, i will shoulder your despair i'll sit with you in sackcloth, i'll lift your soul in prayer this is the law of christ, the love we're commanded to show to walk with you through deserts where nothing seems to grow it’s heavier than heartbreak, this ministry of pain .... but we were called to this, to bear the crushing weight not to abandon~!
