A million footsteps, this left foot drags behind my right

But I keep walking, from daybreak 'til the falling night

And as days turn into weeks and years

And years turn into lifetimes

I just keep walking, like I've been walking for a thousand years



Walk away in emptiness, walk away in sorrow,

Walk away from yesterday, walk away tomorrow,



If you're walking to escape, to escape from your affliction

You'd be walking in a great circle, a circle of addiction

Did you ever wonder what you'd been carrying since the world was black?

You see yourself in a looking glass with a tombstone on your back



Walk away in emptiness, walk away in sorrow,

Walk away from yesterday, walk away tomorrow,

Walk away in anger, walk away in pain

Walk away from life itself, walk into the rain



All this wandering has led me to this place

Inside the well of my memory, sweet rain of forgiveness

I'm just hanging here in space



Now I'm suspended between my darkest fears and dearest hope

Yes I've been walking, now I'm hanging from a dead man's rope

With Hell below me, and Heaven in the sky above

I've been walking, I've been walking away from Jesus' love



Walk away in emptiness, walk away in sorrow,

Walk away from yesterday, walk away tomorrow,

Walk away in anger, walk away in pain

Walk away from life itself, walk into the rain



All this wandering has led me to this place

Inside the well of my memory, sweet rain of forgiveness

I'm just hanging here in space



The shadows fall

Around my bed

When the hand of an angel,

The hand of an angel is reaching down above my head



All this wandering has led me to this place

Inside the well of my memory, sweet rain of forgi