I need to record this

I need to record this

Not in the nice neat package people want

But as the slow, messy, rumbling way

That speaks the truth in love.

And one thing I want to say

Was the day I drove from one country to another 

I SCREAMED aloud my joy of leaving it all behind

And felt that truth in love.

The memory of that journey

Will live with me every day of the rest of my life

I didn’t know what I would find when I arrived

Memory of the truth in love.

And yet I stood there, startled

Wondering at the new life I was starting to live

Not knowing what joy or pain lay before me

As long as I spoke the truth in love.

My past was now behind me

People I had thought I would always be there 

Finding out that they never really had been 

It was now the truth in love.

The grief for a world just gone

Finding out what hadn’t actually been there

Wondering just what my new life would be like 

Discovering the truth in love.

And as the years have passed 

I have learned so many things in this life

The ones who would be there for us all

Learning the truth in love.

Moving on isn’t easy to do

Starting again is a different way of living

You never know what you’ll discover 

Finding out the truth in love.

And if you never know it 

Well then I am very glad for your life’s path

But this is for those who need to know me

Telling them the truth in love.

Peace isn’t just one second

Nor is it always there for us to feel within

For when you truly find that place deep inside

Where peace shares the truth in love.