Without Feeling

One more time now, without feeling

On my knees once more with a prayer of regret

At my bedside with a day to forget

An attempt to block out what I cannot accept.

Wiser hearts than mine put these words in my mind

So I'll sing, "Out father, hallowed be Thy name."

I sing it - I won't mean a thing

But I would never feel ashamed.

Sadness is no substitute for grief

Happiness is joy without belief

I wish I could repent of what I feel about these things

But I can't, so I'll sing out one more time

with-out feeling

with-out feeling

I never said a word I really meant

In truth I have been acting my whole life

Love never spoke up as loud as my mind

Questions of science have filled up my time

Anger is an artificial hate

Affection tries to love but ends up fake

I wish I could repent of what I feel about these things

But I can't, so I'll sing out one more time -

with-out feeling

with-out feeling

I poured my mind

Into a problem it could never solve

An answer it could never find

In love and war I'm all but blind

I sold my soul

I gave my all

Or pretended that is what I did

I've never been sure

I cried for God

To heal my heart

I wanted it to love like it

did at the start