Reprieve   (Music - Robb McCormick, Lyrics - Ed McGee)

you dug yourself so deep
that the walls above caved in
now you’re trapped and blind, clawing
toward the light that can’t get in 

you never really listened
now you can’t hear anything at all
and you get a mouthful of dirt
any time you try to call 

[chorus]:
and still the howling of your soul
begs for some reprieve
you scrape toward the light
and call for someone to believe 

your cries don’t go unnoticed
we can hear you there from here
but you’re one of many voices
fighting for an ear 

it’s like walking through a graveyard
where no one’s really dead
there’s way too much to dig
so we ignore them all instead 

[chorus] 

but this ground isn’t hallowed
all the angels flew away
it’s just me here with no shovel
and no strength left to pray 

so I fall to my knees now
and dig my hands in the earth
and keep searching for me down there
for whatever it is worth