I want to go back home

I want to go back home

by Joel Howard

The world speeds ahead

My brain is affected

The culture roams and roams

My soul feels lost with it

The church seems impacted

Many lost and alone

Devils are pressing

I want to go back home

There is a pace around us

"Faster, bigger, better, best"

There's an attack on our childhood

A struggle against rest

My friends tell me to "get more"

I want and I lack

Satan would undo me

I want to go back 

Go back to the ancient times

Before the earth began

Return to the Father

Who knows no lack

Head home and scorn the shame

Count all things as lost

I want what I was made for 

I want to go back home

The next generation is pushing and swarming

Afraid to be seen, to be known, to be loved

Assuming they must prove in order to be

They need a Father, a father in me

Our children are starving, told to pretend they are fine
Leaders drunk on adultery, drunk with wine

Masking our idolatry, calling it good

Our families are freezing up

Perpetuating falsehood

The whole world is watching, heaven as well

As is the accuser, and the flames of hell

We think its a game, we think we see well

But we perceive dimly, and only in part

Gratitude and forgiveness are my fire inside

Taking me back to a safe place to reside

When I forget the words of others and retreat back

I thank God that he knows me and that I'm alive

I go back to the ancient times

Before the earth began

Return to the Father

Who never has known lack

Head home and scorn the shame

Counting all things as lost

I want what I was made for 

I want to go back home

I want what I was made for

I want to go back home

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