Gods

Verse 1

As a child I would sit, I would listen
As your voices crowded my mind
Oh Gods, I would run in the forest
But ever your faces would I find

In the stillness, in the quiet, I can touch you
Oh Gods, you are ever with me
In the sky, in the fire, I see you
Your eyes stare out from the sea

Verse 2

If I go down to the depths, into Hades
Even there you walk by my side
And I try to escape from you, Gods
Your presence can I never abide

If I lie with my love in the darkness
If I take her into my bed
Oh Gods, as I reach out to embrace her
It is you that I see in her stead

Verse 3

You are monstrous, O Gods, and I fear you
Like a spider crawling under my skin
For I know no offering, no oblation
Could cover up the multitude of my sin

And my nakedness is ever before you
As I shiver, and I cower in the night
You see all my inmost desires
They are loathsome, they are foul in your sight

Verse 4

So I hide, for I cannot bear that you
Should gaze upon all of my shame
But your Spirit shall never forsake me
And I hear as you call out my name