The Silence Of God

It's enough to drive a man crazy

It'll break a man's faith

It's enough to make him wonder

If he's been sane

When he's bleating for comfort

From Thy staff and Thy rod

And the heavens' only answer

Is the silence of God

And it'll shake a man's timbers

When he loses his heart

When he has to remember

What broke him apart

And this yoke may be easy

But this burden is not

And the crying fields are frozen

By the silence of God

If a man has got to listen

To the voices of the mob

Who are reeling in the throes

Of all the happiness they've got

When they tell you all their troubles

Have been nailed up to that cross

What about the times when even

Followers get lost

'Cause we all get lost sometimes

There's a statue of Jesus

On a monestary knoll

In the hills of Kentucky

All quiet and cold

And He's kneeling in the garden

Silent as a stone

And all His friends are sleeping

And He's weeping all alone

And the man of all sorrows

He never forgot

What sorrow is carried

By the hearts that He bought

So when the questions dissolve

Into the silence of God

The aching may remain

But the the breaking does not

The aching may remain

But the the breaking does not

In the holy, lonesome echo

Of the silence of God