Shelter In This Storm

Every day's a race against time with the darkest thoughts inside my mind/Cloudy vision, hazy eyes like I'm livin blind/I question how I'm still alive I ain't sign up for no lifeline/Ain't nobody taught me how to be a man, I fell victim to them white lies/My mama never had no nights off because they cut them lights off/Made me wanna slit my throat but never tried to knife it off/All these candles & boiling water - I got sick and tired of it/Never been afraid of the dark - it's been a product of my environment/How come daddy not around - how come I always got picked on?/Hard time making friends but found some ways to get along/Even when I made friends, I still felt like a lone wolf howling at the moon/Then a voice said to me, all the misery will be over soon/I ain't understand it - how will everything work out for itself?/No matter how much I tried not to stay broke - I ain't find no wealth/Someone lift me up free me from this prison that made me stuck/We ain't ask for this to happen me and Mama bout had enough

Lord I praise You in the good times, praise You in the dark times (praise You in the dark times)/I praise You in this storm and I praise You forevermore (praise you forevermore)/Be my Shelter in this storm, (Be My Shelter)/In this storm - be my Shelter, (In This Storm)/Be my Shelter in this storm, (Be My Shelter)/In this storm - be my Shelter, (In This Storm)

This life I live ain't nothing sweet, so many tears runnin deep/Living on eviction notices to almost living on the street/Asked my mother will the pain go away - why we gotta suffer?/She said you just keep on going to school, soon you will get tougher/Too exhausted and hungry all I wanted was to get out/Throwin temper-tantrums mama slapped me of my big mouth/Job application after application still no kind of income/Crept around the hood at night - breaking into cars gettin some/Stole so much loose change - guilty to the fact this wasn't right/Needed lunch my tummy filled up - thinking this can't be life/Then one day back home from school, mom calls me about the computer/Electricity's finally back on - don't start to think that I'm foolin ya/Got off the bus ran straight to the crib, see the lights working - gave my mom a big hug/Told me son this is what happens when you never give up/Never felt so close to Mom's that day, the rest just didn't matter/Then I gave my life to Christ the following summer right after

Lord I praise You in the good times, praise You in the dark times (praise You in the dark times)/I praise You in this storm and I praise You forevermore (praise you forevermore)/Be my Shelter in this storm, (Be My Shelter)/In this storm - be my Shelter, (In This Storm)/Be my Shelter in this storm, (Be My Shelter)/In this storm - be my Shelter, (In This Storm).