Beautiful Lone Companion

I dreamed last night upon my bed
Of love and everlasting arms
In cities where the weary tread
Cross distant fields and farms

He forages for human pain
In the marrow of despair
He’s in a single drop of rain
The fragrant evening air

And He keeps to the mountains and the valleys
He sleeps by the rivers and the streams
He dwells at the edges of the shadows
To water your life and deepest dreams
And He moves through ancient contradictions
With the grace of a sacred machine
This beautiful lone companion
No one’s ever seen

You may catch Him in the garden
If the evening light is good
Is that Him moving ‘cross the hillside
With soldier’s nails and wood?
You may feel Him in your body
Weighing heavy as a thought
Our every notion of His mind
Is everything he’s not

And He keeps to the mountains and the valleys
He sleeps by the rivers and the streams
And He dwells at the edges of the shadows
To water your life and deepest dreams
And He moves through ancient contradictions
With the grace of a sacred machine
This beautiful lone companion
No one’s ever seen

Out of a dreamless night
We strut and rage a fretted hour
He holds one tear up to the light
A single tear to break these chains of lust and power

And He moves through ancient contradictions
With the grace of a sacred machine
This beautiful lone companion
No one’s ever seen

Amy Grant - Beautiful Lone Companion Lyrics

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