Caedmon's Call-
Petrified Heart


This old heart's been left
Out on my sleeve
And I have paid as it's been rent
Into pieces
Seems everyone I've loved has
Taken a bit of my insides
I'm scattered as the woman whose body
Was torn for the twelve tribes
When did my heart get so petrified
When did it get so hard to feel
When did my heart get so afraid to love
When did it get so hard

And the easy-living Gnostic proud
Use their knowledge Like a wreking ball to tear me down
Flooding me with their fallacies

I can't walk on this water
I'm starting to drown
Strike this rock with your rod I'll take the blows
Till Your living water begins to flow
As it flowed from the Man of Sorrows' side
Was torn for the twelve tribes

This is how I've felt at times, as though everyone that I interact with has taken a bit of my insides and used me up. I pray that I will have a renewed heart, that we each will have this, your my friends who have been beaten down by the ever-rising cost of living.