Pain and Misery

This is a song that I've been working on for 2 months and a week.  Ok, that's a lie.  2 months and a week ago, I started working on it for about 2 days.  Then I hit a brick wall.  Actually, more like a solid stone wall.  That's backed by 2 miles of more stone.  I took it to Alex (my church's worship minister), Missy, and Jeanette "the word-"Smith (ahh pun!), and was offered a few biblical passages to think about.  These helped a little bit, in that they gave me a lot of confidence in what I had written as well as allowing me to see even more meaning in what I had written, but didn't offer me much for the necessity of adding a conclusion.  Then tonight it was like... BAM.  Someone took some dynamite or someat and blew out all of the rocks in my way and I was like... oh.  duh!

So... here goes.  It's in a Latin feel that's pretty happenin', and yeah.  People who have heard the partial song seem to have enjoyed...  Please feel free to offer up any constructive criticisms or what-have-yous.

here i come i run to You, but

still it feels i've got so far to go

my soul grows weary but i dare not 

rest lest i'm laid low

by the pain and misery that threaten

to overtake me so now i

pray You take my grief and that You'd

deliver me relief

*i give You all my life Lord

all my strengths, my faults, oh

would You shape my life, God

so that i may exalt You

in the works i do, Lord

in the thoughts that i think

in the words i say, oh

that i would not shrink*

here i come i run to You, but 

still it feels i've got so far to go 

yet as i put my faith in You the

distance starts to close

still the pain and misery they threaten 

to overtake me but now i

know You are with me and that You 

will take up my grief as Your own

i don't know how to thank You for all that

You have done for me so here i

dedicate my life my all

for You alone i breathe

*Chorus*

[this part is half the speed as the rest of the song, and done in a less frenzied style so as to indicate a change in point-of-view...]

come to Me, i've come for you

I know it seems you've got so far to go

I'm with you even as you come

and I want you to know

that the pain and misery I've overcome 

so I could be with you I've

taken up your grief so you might

live eternally in My home

I've loved you all your life and well before

but I won't force your choice no, but

if you want My offer then

ask and you'll receive

[the last word is sustained as the next part begins underneath it at the original tempo]

(here i come i run to You, i

hear Your Word i trust Your Light, i'll

follow You until the end when

my life is exposed

when the pain and misery that once had

overtaken me have become

part of a world gone of which)

i have been set free

*Chorus*

from You