Words by Mark Mohr / Music by Avion Blackman and Mark Mohr
Inspired by: Hebrews 9:27, James 4:13-14, Hebrews 4:7, John 8:12, John 12:46, I Peter 2:9
"What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes." James 4:14
She is a precious little Child / Two pig tails and a toothless smile / A world of possibilities / Imagination running wild / It is the worst day of the year / Her Mother gives her an embrace / With eyes welled up in tears / She says "Daddy's gone to a better place" / PRE-CHORUS: Lying in bed with tears in her eyes / Afraid of the dark so she turns to the light / CHORUS: Do you ever think what life is worth? / Where will you go when you leave the earth? / Do you ever think what life is worth? / Where will you go when you leave the earth? / Now she's just turned sweet sixteen / Reading fashion magazines / Her innocence is gone / And she's on the party scene / Hangin' out on Friday night / "Can I bum another light?" / Everything just feels so right / Until her friend commits suicide / (PRE-CHORUS) / (CHORUS) / She was an ordinary girl / With a pocket full of dreams / Now she's in an empty life / And nothing's as it seems / The only one that brings her joy / Is her husband of thirty years / Until he has a stroke and dies / Now her joy has disappeared / (PRE-CHORUS) / (CHORUS) / Now she's in a nursing home / No one visits any more / Her whole life is behind her / And nothing is before / The only companion left / Is her television set / She hears the pastor's voice on Sunday / Then breathes her last breath / Lying in bed / With tears in her eyes / Afraid of the dark / So she moves towards the light / (CHORUS) / Do you hear? / Hear His voice? / Calling you to the light / Can you hear? / Hear His voice? / Calling you to the light.
