Affliction from More Constant Than The Gods

Oh, sweet God above, please take me home Show me the mercy that he denied I’ve paid my dues, and I’ve served my time The shadow’s haunting me the way it haunted him He looked in my baby’s eyes and he felt nothing then He felt nothing then, and he feels nothing now Not a day goes by that I don’t think of him I don’t know what he suffered, Lord, and I don’t know what he’s seen But he’s spread his sadness like a disease The shadow’s haunting me the way it haunted him He looked in my baby’s eyes and he felt nothing then He felt nothing then, and all I feel’s anguish now There is a darkness born out of time It creeps along the edge of our excess Its hatred ripples in our fertile hearts Like heat waves shimmering with their mirage It gathers chessmen and loaded guns It snuffs the candles out one by one Oh, sweet God above, please take me home Show me the mercy that he denied