[Verse 1]
Forgive me, Lord, forgive! I am not worthy, I know,
Not just to ask of Thee – but even think Thy name.
When measured 'gainst my earthly life of sin and shame,
The words "a warrior of Christ" mock me with their glow.
[Verse 2]
My soul barely alive, all battles lost and done,
The gust of worldly wants has blown my candle out.
I've traded once again, with neither care nor doubt,
The Jesus Prayer's salvation for the sins I've won.
[Chorus]
The pangs of conscience find me wherever I may flee,
No place remains for me on this terrestrial ground.
In my ears echoes still the silver coins' cold sound
And Judas' moan when truth at last he came to see.
[Verse 3]
I picked from earth a bird with broken wing, forlorn,
While losing sight of cranes that soared across the sky...
Life settles like the dust from fields raised up on high,
While eternity's treasure remains hidden, unworn.
[Verse 4]
Having spurned all grace and cast the sacred aside,
I'm not worthy to rot within these prison walls,
For sin demands not exile but death's darkest palls.
Drive me, ungrateful one, to deserts vast and wide.
[Chorus]
[Verse 5]
The wedding garments pure I cannot hope to wear,
My hope has died, and only one thing now remains...
The depths of my proud heart reveal its darkest stains –
A cunning heart by sin corroded, laid out bare.
[Verse 6]
From deep within my soul my troubles truly came –
In tarnished spirit began every wretched fall.
Depleted is my store of weak excuses, all,
The verdict has been passed: "Cast out! Eternal shame!"
[Bridge]
A child may promise "I shall never stray again!"
But falsehood won't survive one final honest gaze...
I've seen my soul's abyss and felt hell's dreadful blaze
This truth I'll not forget through all the ages' span.
[Chorus]
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