Everything That’s On My Mind

I've been out here for so long, riding fences
I don't know what it finally was
That brought me to me senses
Was it the cold, was it the loneliness?
Was it my shame at the sickness of my flesh?

Rebuilding fences
Is an introspective undertaking
There's no diversion
To distract you from the deeper aching
I cut the wood, I swung the hammer
Every strike like a flash of understanding

Oh, I have to say
Everything that's on my mind
I cannot keep it bottled up inside of me
I have to pray, it took me far too long
To find out that my wеakness
Is my testimony

All my labor was the protеst demonstration
Of a man who had the gall
To call conviction condemnation
'Til I cried for grace and I finally meant it
'Til I left my pride behind me
Nailed to those fences

Oh, I have to say
Everything that's on my mind
I cannot keep it bottled up inside of me
I have to pray, it took me far too long
To find out that my weakness
Is my testimony

Up in this altitude
The cold at night can kill
My fingers got so numb
My body got so chilled
It seeps into your bones
And devastates your will
Oh, I'm not the strongest man
No, I'm not the only man
No, I'm not the strongest man
Whose been broken in those hills

Oh, I have to say
Everything that's on my mind
I cannot keep it bottled up inside of me
I have to pray, it took me far too long
To find out that my weakness
Is my testimony

Ooh, la, la, la, la, la, la, yeah
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Ooh, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, yeah
La, la, la, yeah