Sanctuary

When I was a boy I thought I was free
Running through the darkness and shouting at the trees.
I could feel my madness and I could feel my fear
They were wild and they were calling and I wanted to be near.
On the beer drenched dance floor, across the lonely fields
I was lost and I was missing but my heart it would not yield.

Then I ran to your sanctuary and I fell down at your door
And I got to thinking what good is running for.

I knew a woman and a woman she knew me
She had a fire in her belly and it set fire to me.
I could feel her loneliness, I could feel her fear
It was wild, it was calling and I wanted to be near.
We would dance through the darkness, across the lonely fields
We were lost, we were missing but her heart it would not yield.

Well they found me and they caught me and they tied me in ropes.
I got to thinking that I did not have a hope.
Can I dance away my loneliness and sing out my betrayal
But words they can choke you and words they can fail.
There were no promises to make you no prayers that I could send
Just a fear and a loneliness and a heart I could not mend.

Would you be my hiding place, the lifter of my head?
Run down the road to meet me, raise me from the dead.
Oh let me be your minstrel boy, let me be your seer
For I’ve got the fire and I’ve got the fear.
Make me sing songs of bitterness, make me sing songs of woe
For they’re sweet on my lips and I’m raring to go.