I Am

Take me instead
I’ll stand in the middle
A martyr once said
Hoping to deliver us
Take me instead
I’ll stand in the middle
When the river runs red
Hoping for deliverance
Defiant
I’ll become the shelter in the hope
That my death gives more before oblivion
I’m hoping that the river runs dry yet
I am all of who I am
Wear the face of all I know I am
I am all of who I am
I the tested
I the broken stand
Take me instead
I’ll stand unforgiven
When the river runs red
Hoping this delivers us
Defiant
I’m become the shelter in the hope
That my death gives more before oblivion
Hoping that the river runs dry yet
I am all of who I am
Wear the face of all I know I am
I am all of who I am
I the tested
I the broken stand
On the inside
Born a slave here in denial
I am free now
I am just holding my own sacred line
I will keep on following
For the one who wears the eyes I conceived
Mine offered up
I will brace, bleed and defy
The moment that the river runs
I am all of who I am
Wear the face of all I know I am
Both the liar and the honest man
I the tested
I the broken stand
I’m hoping to deliver us
Hoping that the river runs dry