Verse 1
Love the Lord with all your heart,
With all your soul and all your mind.
Love your neighbor as yourself,
They say the truth is in that line.
The words are spoken every day,
Yet one more question still remains.
Who's the neighbor standing there,
Calling softly through my name?
Chorus
If I spend my whole life fighting
Half the man I came to be,
Will I ever know the kingdom,
Or the truth that sets me free?
Maybe love begins the moment
I stop running from myself.
The hero and the villain
Share the story that I tell
Verse 2
I've searched the deserts of my soul,
Where saints and sinners walk as one.
Found a stranger in the mirror,
Running from what I'd become.
Every serpent that I battled,
Every demon that I cursed,
Was a shadow in the water,
Drinking from my endless thirst.
Chorus
If I spend my whole life fighting
Half the man I came to be,
Will I ever know the kingdom,
Or the truth that sets me free?
Maybe love begins the moment
I stop running from myself.
The hero and the villain
Share the story that I tell
Verse 3
Adam, Eve, and Cain and Abel,
Brothers born from one divided flame.
Slave and free, the light and darkness,
Every story speaks my name.
Spirit moving on the waters,
Staring at its own reflection.
I've been swinging at the mirror,
Mistaking it for my deception.
Bridge
Maybe every ancient parable
Lives inside this heart of mine.
Every throne I've tried to conquer,
Every mountain I must climb.
I don't worship fear or hatred,
I don't glorify the night.
I just walk into the darkness
Searching for an honest light.
Final Chorus
Love the Lord with all your being.
Love your neighbor as yourself.
Maybe both are found together
Before the soul slips into Hell
I'll return to tell the story
Of the man that I became
The hero found his villain...
And discovered they're the same
The journey wasn't out before me.
It had always led within.
stevenrgrimmett
