Down On My Knees

I was in a hotel room I was so far away from home It seemed like the walls were closing in on me My soul felt like it'd turned to stone There were two books upon the night stand I didn't know which one to read And I wasn't sure what I might find in them Or if it would be anything I need But I sat there in that small room And as the night became the day I read about Buddha and I read about Christ And the words that they did say And I saw myself before me Like a ship lost at sea And I guess I was content to just let it pass When I heard your voice in me Down on my knees I went walking into a strange city In the darkest hours of the night I went looking for a sign from you I was hoping to see the light When a man came from the shadows And he asked me if I'd heard The good news about Jesus Christ And how he was the word Then he asked me to say a prayer with him So that Christ I would receive I told him I had further to walk Before I could believe He said he saw me standing before him Like a ship lost at sea And I saw myself reflected in his eyes When I felt your breath on me Down on my knees I was sitting by the ocean I was up against a dune I was listening to the tide come in I was looking up at the moon And I never felt as alone in my life As I did just sitting there My whole life flashed before me And the pictures they seemed so bare And I was overcome with desperation And a hunger I couldn't feed Time stood still and was seething And I could feel my existence bleed And I saw myself before me Like a ship lost at sea And I was looking for a beacon When I felt your light touch me Down on my knees