I COUNT THE YEARS Words and music copyright 2025 by Dwight Liles [Verse 1] I never feared the false alarm I gave the last I had to give My hands lie useless to repair This broken world in which I live The shattered hourglass leaks my days And every dream I once held near Dissolves into the emptiness As one by one I count the years [Verse 2] There was a song upon the wind A chapel door was locked and chained I walked into the naked night I only sought to dull the pain No comfort waited in the street No hand of help, no voice of cheer So I sit by the chapel wall As one by one I count the years [Verse 3] I thought I heard the voice of God Commanding me to give my son It made no sense to me at all For I was childless and alone So I gave up myself instead My every hope, my every fear To die each day upon this cross As one by one I count the years [Verse 4] I saw a sign along the road That pointed to a narrow place I could have turned around but no I stayed my course and lost my way I have no clue which road leads home No satellite can find me here I have no choice but to press on As one by one I count the years [Verse 5] Confusion is a faithful friend In its own strange confusing way At least I know what I know not I may know even less someday For now I must content myself That there is no contentment here Only the shadow of the past As one by one I count the years [Verse 6] I do not need your sympathy For I am no worse off than you You have this darkness in yourself Though you deny it to be true For me I choose to bare my soul And I refuse to disappear I sing my sorrow and your own As one by one I count the years
