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12:25am June 19, 2012

“Standin’ Knee Deep” by Lacy J. Dalton

This song really gets into some of the most important things I’ve ever learned. People always ask me how I’ve gotten through what I have. This is the actual answer. And it’s very true that it happens when certain parts of your mind quit endlessly running for awhile.

Note: 1. This is not the song of the same name that several other people sing. It just has one line with the same lyrics. That’s all. And I like this one much better. 2. I’m annoyed at the person who made the video, for trying to make this specific to their religion. I think if she intended that, she’d have written it that way. Because it’s… just not. 3. Lyrics follow.

There’ve been times in my life

When I’ve felt out of touch and half-crazy

Lost in a crowd with lovers and friends by my side
There’s a numbness I’ve known,

all alone in some shimmering city

With bright lights around me

and nothing but shadows inside

There’ve been desperate times

when my heart was so dry

That I felt like my life was a curse

I was standin’ knee deep in the river and dyin’ of thirst

There are months at a time

When no reason nor rhyme can sustain me

When nothin’ makes sense

and everything turns upside-down
There are nights when I fight

to keep dreamin’ from driving me crazy

And I shut off my mind

just to keep it from spinnin’ around

But it’s down in that quiet in that stillness I find

The sweet water for which I’ve longed searched

While standin’ knee deep in the river and dyin’ of thirst

So if you’re having times

When you feel out of touch and half-crazy

Lost in a crowd with lovers and friends by your side
If the game’s getting old,

and you’re cold and exhausted and maybe

You’d just like to cop-out and crumble,

or lay down and die

If you come to a time when you need to decide

Friend, you might want to ask yourself first

Am I standin’ knee deep in the river and dyin’ of thirst?

’Cause there’s a great river runs

from the heart of the sun

Through the soul of the whole universe

From the limitless light that brings order and might

To the substance of Heaven and Earth
And it’s down in that quiet, in that stillness inside

There’s a well we don’t seek ’til we hurt

From standin’ knee deep in the river and dyin’ of thirst

Yes, down in that quiet, in that stillness inside

Are sweet waters to heal this whole Earth

That is standin’ knee deep in the river
Standin’ knee deep in the river
We’re all standin’ knee deep in the river and dyin’ of thirst

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