The Answer

This is hardly new material but while I am posting songs I figured I would post some other lyrics that I put together quite awhile ago. There is not music to this and it may be too long to ever put to music but my more recent attempts haven't quite been able to resonate with people as this did.

"The Answer"

A silent conversation
For your eyes speak to me
Longing for consolation
A heart that won’t be free.
Beneath a smile you hide the pain
The constant longing in your brain
I would that you might stop and turn
To find the love for which you yearn.

But the face you wear is not your own.
The place you live is not your home.
You can’t believe the words they speak
For they know not the truth you seek.

Fragments of reality, a life on display
Is it easy to decide what mask to wear today?

Yet as you climb out of bed
Those same voices fill your head
Why even get up at all?
If you try, you’ll only fall.
Can’t find a way to drown them out
“It’s all a lie,” you want to shout.
Keeping silent one more day,
Will this existence fade away?


Chorus: For the face you wear is not your own.
The place you live is not your home.
You can’t believe the words they speak
For they know not the truth you seek.

You long just once to take a stand
But there’s a tremor in your hand.
Even though you disagree,
You quickly join the symphony.
So easy just to sing their song
Pretending always to be strong
Than to take your cross and follow
Too tough a pill for you to swallow.

(Repeat Chorus)

A heart that searching cannot find
Truth that’s hidden in your mind
Refusing just to look inside
Drowning in your hollow pride.
Finally it’s time to fall.
In the depths you hear His call
In the past you’ve pushed away
But your strength has failed today.
An invitation not declined
Look to Him and you will find,

Your face will tell you are His own
One day He’ll call you to your home.
You can believe all He does speak
For He is the Truth you seek.

Lyrics by: Richard Wilke
Rome, Italy
March 28, 2002

"I"

This is a song I put together 3/10/07 and I figured it was about time to share it... It is pretty simple but sometimes simple is the best way to make a point.

I

v. 1

Another day of falling on my face,
Of feeling out of place
Trying just to find my way
As I stumble day by day
Trapped between the walls these hands have made.

Chorus:
Who I am, is not who I want to be,
Is not who I planned to be,
I can’t discern the plans You have for me.
Who I am, is not who I try to be
Is not who I hope to be
When I look in the mirror, I don’t like who I see

v.2
And I know You’re working to complete
The works that You’ve begun in me
Yet when I look around,
I find my hope is found
Only in what I see in me.

Chorus

Bridge:

But my eyes can only see so far
For my vision’s clouded by
All that is within me that doesn’t come from You.

v.3
It is only when I realize
That I cannot see but through your eyes
The wondrous life You’ve made in me
That in your presence I might be,
A glorious work of Your hands, if only I could understand…

Chorus (modified)

That who I am, is not who I want to be
But Your Grace surrounds me
For I am uniquely created to live within Your love.
Who I am I is not who I try to be,
From my striving set me free
That I may live the life You gave to me.