Aaron Rickel - Questions Lyrics

Lately I've been searching for
The real you, nothing more
And finding you in unexpected places
Like in the bars on Friday night
Or in poetry by candlelight
And it's leaving me with a couple nagging questions

Like if you want to speak to me
Then why does it so often seem
The conversation only goes one way
With me searching for answers
To my doubts spreading like cancer
While the preacher prays that you will find me soon

So where have you been
And where have you gone
It feels like it's been so long
Cause I've been hoping
And I've been praying
But I'm not sure that I can keep holding on

Lately I've been thinking
That maybe there's more to living
Than dying with my bible in a pew
For vaguely I recall
That you came to love us all
And make us instruments for loving one another

But instead we're building fences
Around what we don't understand yet
And blindly throwing stones over our hedges
Cause I don't remember hearing you say
Charlatans and whores and gays
Aren't welcome at your table full of grace
Cause I want them at the table full of grace

So where have I been
And where have I gone
It feels like it's been so long
Cause it's been so many years
Since I've felt I'm in your arms
And I'm just hanging onto hope that you're still there