God Only Knows - Joe Henry

Darkness settles on the ground

And leaves the day stumbling blind,

Coming to a quiet close

And maybe just in time:

We’d almost lost the heart to know

How to keep our best in mind,

We’d almost lost the heart to know

How to keep our best in mind.

Time has turned an angry face

And throws a dark eye back to see

That what will pass for mercy now

We practice unforgiving.

As if might and will mode right

Or either one could make us free,

As if might and will made right

Or either one could make us free.

Lovers laugh and cross this way

Weaving out into the street,

It seems we never were so young

Or it was never quite so sweet.

But the world is always beautiful

When it’s seen in full retreat,

The worst of life looks beautiful

As it slips away in full retreat.

God only knows that we can do

No more or lass than He’ll allow,

God only knows that we mean well

God knows that we just don’t know how.

But I’ll try to be your light in love

And pray that is enough for now,

I’ll try to be your light in love

And pray that is enough for now.