Have you known my sorrows

Have you known my sorrows?

Have you cried my tears?

When you have walked my highways

Then will you understand my fears...

Nobody else can feel my pain

No one can live inside this shell

Think you to judge my lifetime

Could you truly understand my hell?

If you seek to understand me

If you seek to look inside my heart

Please step gently as you enter

Please tiptoe around and then

When you have witnessed all my sorrows

Then felt this pain within my heart

Then: maybe then: you would reconsider

And accept that living life is an art...

I have been lost beside the highway 

I have stumbled: I have fallen: true

Gotten up and crawled a while

But each time I cried out my anguish

Each time I suffered and sighed

I know there was another

Who felt everything that I had done

He lifted me when I was fallen

He carried me when I could not move

He loved me even when I could not

He showed me that I was forgiven

By taking up my heavy cross...

Ah Lord I am still crying... 

Ah Lord I suffer for your pain

You came to save me from myself

You took up all of my burdens

You my dearest took all my blame

Thank you my sweetest Saviour

Thank you for giving up your life

I know that no other loves me

No other could understand my pain

Only my precious Saviour 

Could see inside my very heart

And knowing all I suffer...

Could honestly say to me

"I know all that you suffered

I know all that you have borne

Come unto me my daughter

For you I offered up my son..."