World Apart

(A prayer by Jars of Clay)

I am the only one to blame for this,
Somehow it all ends up the same,
Soaring on the wings of selfish pride,
I flew too high and like Icarus I collide,
With a world I try so hard to leave behind,
To rid myself of all but love,
to give and die...

To turn away and not become
Another nail to pierce the skin of one who loves
more deeply than the oceans,
more abundant than the tears
Of a world embracing every heartache.

Can I be the one to sacrifice
Or grip the spear and watch the blood and water flow?

To love you - take my world apart;
To need you - I am on my knees;
To love you - take my world apart;
To need you - broken on my knees.

All said and done I stand alone
Amongst remains of a life I should not own;
It takes all I am to believe
In the mercy that covers me.

Did you really have to die for me?
All I am for all you are,
Because what I need and what I believe are worlds apart.

I look beyond the empty cross,
forgetting what my life has cost,
and wipe away the crimson stains
and dull the nails that still remain;
More and more I need you now,
I owe you more each passing hour,
the battle between grace and pride
I gave up not so long ago,
So steal my heart and take the pain
and wash the feet and cleanse my pride,
take the selfish, take the weak,
and all the things I cannot hide.
Take the beauty, take my tears,
the sin-soaked heart and make it yours.
Take my world all apart,
take it now, take it now,
and serve the ones that I despise,
speak the words I can't deny,
watch the world I used to love
fall to dust and thrown away,
I look beyond the empty cross,
forgetting what my life has cost,
so wipe away the crimson stains
and dull the nails that still remain,
so steal my heart and take the pain,
take the selfish, take the weak,
and all the things I cannot hide.
Take the beauty, take my tears,
take my world apart, take my world apart.
I pray, I pray, I pray,
take my world apart.

Amen.