Father Abraham

Father Abraham why is my life in chains
I asked for peace but I'm praying here again
It breaks my heart to be out here in the cold
I have no-one and my possessions have been sold

Sister Martha I beseech you in my pain
Tell me the reason why my tears they fall again
I need compassion not another rosary
Give me your love and then I know that I'll be free

Through the alleyways and round the streets I run
It's dark and I don't have the comfort of the sun
In the square where the children never play
There's a man who has stolen everybody's day

It's a miracle I've made it through the night
If there's no love how can anything be right
Don't ask me now to go back outside the door
I feel afraid amongst the hungry starving poor

But night is falling and I cannot touch the day
I speak but silently and no-one knows the way
The candle gutters and the dimming lantern falls
But still I'm haunted by the shadows on the walls.

Through the alleyways and round the streets I run
It's dark and I don't have the comfort of the sun
In the square where the children never play
There's a man who has stolen everybody's day

Father Abraham why is my life in chains
I asked for peace but I'm praying here again
It breaks my heart to be out here in the cold
I have no-one and my possessions have been sold.

Instrumental

This is just an expression of confusion, and perhaps the fear that isn't quite depression.

The line 'I speak but silently' came from my step-daughter: she used to say hello to the goldfish in her room when she got home from school. I asked her once why she did that, because they couldn't talk. After a moment's thought she said 'They do talk, but silently.'