Voices In the Wind

Locked in the basement
Where all bad boys and girls go
Stripped of my dignity, left in the dark
Why, I don't know. What did I do?
Shadows are lurking about the room
I want to scream but I'm scared to move
Oh, God, I want to be free

Wait, I can see
A painted over window tightly shut
Too high to reach
But a scarlet cord is dangling above
I'm pulling it down
I can feel the air whirling all around
Like rushing waters I am hearing sounds
Shaping words that comfort me

Voices in the wind
They don't call me down, they call me friend
They're telling me my life is to be lived
Well, maybe I could
Voices in the wind
Such joy when they come rushing in
They're whispering that beauty waits within
Keep insisting deep inside I'm really good

Now I've the key and I've got a light
I'm going down
Each step I take seems
To rip through the dark
With a deafening sound
Such a difficult task
So many questions I have to ask
When I finally meet this shadow cast
Who could they possibly be?

The light shows the child rejected
When she only wanted to please
Out steps the woman
Crippled by anger raging deep
My God, they're me
And then there's the guilt
And the shame and the fear
How many years we've been wasting here
It's time for us to be free

Voices in the wind
They don't call me down, they call me friend
They're telling me my life is to be lived
I'm thinking now I could, uh-huh
Voices in the wind
Such joy when they come rushing in
They're whispering that beauty waits within
And suddenly deep inside I know I'm good

The first seed of the longing for justice
Blows through the soul like the wind

Self-knowledge is of such importance
That even if you were to be raised
To the highest heavens
I should not want you to stop
Your cultivation of it

Tend only to the birth in you
And you will find all goodness
All consolation, all delight
All being and all truth

God has placed his nature in you
Wholly in fullness and power in beauty
And goodness in nobility
And ever manner of preciousness and honor

You have made her little less than a God
With glory and honor, You have crowned her
Given her power over the works of Your hand
Put all things under her feet

God is everything, which is good
And the goodness which everything has is God

God looked upon everything He had made
And it was very good

Voices in the wind
They don't call me down, they call me friend
They're telling me my life is to be lived
Now I know I could, whoa-whoa-whoa...
Voices in the wind
Such joy when they come rushing in
They're whispering that beauty lives within
They tell me I can win
Voices in the wind
They never call me down, they call me friend
They're whispering that beauty lies within
Finally, deep inside I know I'm good