Silent, broken 

bruised and cloaked 

in this desert night 

I wait for you 



My eyes wide open 

I face this moment 

and picture you by my side 



Funny how the things of this world 

quickly fall away 

and everything is equal to me 

in this final place 



So how long? Lord, how long? 

and how long? Lord, how long? 



Skies above me 

the earth beneath me 

and a sinner's place in between 



My God 

my country 

my blood 

my enemy 

my reason desert me now 



Funny how the things of this world 

quickly fall away 

and everything is equal to me 

in this final place 



So how long? Lord, how long? 

and how long? Lord, how long?