Father
Desperation's Cry: A Heart's Plea to the Silent Heavens
Lyrics
This train goes north and south I'm walking
The speaker is walking while a train moves in opposite directions.
From my mouth a silent hush of words
A quiet expression of words comes from the speaker's mouth.
Your name is playing on repeat
The name of someone significant repeats in the speaker's mind.
Each step the night grows cold defeat
With each step, the night becomes colder, and a sense of defeat prevails.
But you stay locked up, locked up inside my head
The person stays mentally trapped inside the speaker's thoughts.
The sick are healed by God they say
Reference to the belief that the sick can be healed by God.
I'm sick and filthy as I pray
The speaker acknowledges their own spiritual and moral shortcomings.
I prayed, and I prayed... but no one came...
The speaker prayed fervently, but no help or response came.
Father in Heaven
Direct address to God as the father in heaven.
Why did you leave me?
Expressing a sense of abandonment and questioning God's departure.
You know that I'm trying
The speaker asserts their effort and struggle in coping with the situation.
Why'd you take my love so suddenly?
Questioning the sudden loss of love.
Why couldn't you save us?
Expressing frustration at God's inability to save the speaker and the loved one.
I'm asking I'm pleading
Desperation and pleading for answers and help.
I feel like I'm dying
Feeling a profound sense of emotional pain and deterioration.
Are you there, oh, are you listening?
Questioning God's presence and attention to the speaker's pleas.
Moments away from building a cradle
Close to creating a nurturing environment (cradle), but something obstructs it.
She made the choice there's thread in the needle
Reference to a significant choice made, with thread and needle symbolism.
God knows best, Job was his finest
Acknowledging the idea that divine wisdom is beyond human comprehension (Job reference).
But I'm not him so why try this
The speaker questions the rationale behind their own struggles.
My engine is failing, my fuel's running empty
Metaphorical language describing personal failure and exhaustion.
Family and friends, they don't seem to fill me
Feeling unfulfilled despite the presence of family and friends.
This heartbroken man wants what he lost back
A broken-hearted individual yearns to regain what was lost.
Give her back, please send her back
A plea to return what was lost, possibly a loved one.
Father in Heaven
Repetition of the appeal to the father in heaven.
Why did she leave me?
Questioning the departure of a significant person.
You know that I'm trying
Reiterating the speaker's efforts in coping with the sudden departure.
Just in 2 months she left flawlessly
Highlighting the abruptness of the loved one's departure.
Father in Heaven
Expressing confusion and helplessness directed towards the divine.
I'm baffled and helpless
Expressing a lack of divine intervention despite desperate pleas.
You never deliver
The speaker's emotional vulnerability while seeking divine assistance.
While I'm crying out while on my knees
Continued appeal to God despite the apparent absence of help.
She's gone
Confirmation of the loved one's departure.
She's gone
Repetition to emphasize the emotional impact of the loss.
She's gone
Further emphasizing the irrevocable absence of the loved one.
Father... Why is she gone?
A direct appeal to God questioning the reasons for the departure.
Father in Heaven
Repetition of the plea to the father in heaven.
How could you leave me?
Expressing the feeling of being abandoned by God.
Your love for your children
Questioning God's seemingly selective love for his children.
Was extended out to all but me
Feeling excluded from God's love extended to others.
If it's too much to ask then
If the speaker's request is too burdensome, they prefer to be left alone.
Please don't come and find me
A plea for God not to seek out the speaker.
Don't come and find me
A repeated request for God not to find the speaker.
She was all that I wanted
The loved one is described as everything the speaker desired.
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