Fifty Years in the Satan's Fire (Today's Hot Country CCM)

Intro

Oh Lord

Help me understand

(Slight guitar feedback)

Verse 1

Counting fifty summers by the medicine cabinet

Rusting red ticks and a fever I cannot quit

Wicked weight on my lungs

Half my world is gone to grey

Sound is sinking like a stone beneath the bay

Pre-Chorus

I look at these hands

I look at the wall

I look for a sign

Chorus

God are you listening

Can you see the holes in my skin

God are you listening

To the rattling breath of a broken man

God are you listening

My faith is a thin wire in a hurricane

Verse 2

Sores that wont shut and joints that scream at the sun

Morning is a mountain and I have nowhere left to run

Shadows crawling across my bed

White light fading from my eyes

Wrestled with the devil for a million nights

Pre-Chorus

I call out your name

I call through the dark

I call til I bleed

Chorus

God are you listening

Can you see the holes in my skin

God are you listening

To the rattling breath of a broken man

God are you listening

My faith is a thin wire in a hurricane

Bridge

(Slow acoustic strumming)

Wait child I have heard you

I have heard you every hour

I have heard you in the fire

The harvest is ripening now

The scrolls are ready to turn

I needed a heart that was tempered

I needed a soul that could burn through the end

The season is calling your name

Chorus

I know you are listening

Now I see the purpose in the pain

I know you are listening

The storm is breaking with the rain

I know you are listening

Prepare the way for the coming day

Post-Chorus

Ready for the change

Ready for the light

Ready for the King