Shelter From The Storm (Live)

[00:35.52]'Twas in another lifetime one of toil and blood

[00:40.22]When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud

[00:44.31]I come in from the wilderness a creature void of form

[00:48.89]Come in she said

[00:50.07]I'll give you shelter from the storm

[01:05.54]And if I pass this way again you can rest assured

[01:06.56]I'll always do my best for her on that I give my word

[01:10.31]In a world of steel-eyed death and men who are fighting to be warm

[01:11.70]Come in she said

[01:12.12]I'll give you shelter from the storm

[01:13.04]Not a word was spoke between us there was no risk involved

[01:16.04]Nothing up to that point had even been resolved

[01:19.82]Try imagining a place where it's always safe and warm

[01:24.09]Come in she said

[01:25.26]I'll give you shelter from the storm

[01:45.81]I was burned out from exhaustion buried in the hail

[01:50.45]Poisoned in the bushes an' blown out on the trail

[01:54.95]Hunted like a crocodile ravaged in the corn

[01:59.09]Come in she said

[02:00.26]I'll give you shelter from the storm

[02:20.79]Suddenly I turned around and she was standin' there

[02:25.19]With silver bracelets on her wrists and flowers in her hair

[02:29.31]She walked up to me so gracefully and took my crown of thorns

[02:33.93]Come in she said

[02:35.06]I'll give you shelter from the storm

[02:55.22]Now the bonds are broken but they can be retied

[02:56.52]By one more journey to the woods the holes where spirits hide

[02:58.16]It's a never ending battle for a peace that's always torn

[03:00.12]Come in she said

[03:00.65]I'll give you shelter from the storm

[03:01.59]Well the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount

[03:03.12]But nothing really matters much it's doom alone that counts

[03:04.97]And the one-eyed undertaker he blows a futile horn

[03:08.58]Come in she said

[03:09.68]I'll give you shelter from the storm

[03:30.30]I've heard newborn babies cryin' like a moanin' dove

[03:33.03]And old men with broken teeth stranded without love

[03:35.12]Do I understand your question man is it hopeless and forlorn

[03:41.79]Come in she said

[03:44.45]I'll give you shelter from the storm

[04:05.00]And now there's a wall between us something else been lost

[04:09.44]I took too much for granted I got my signals crossed

[04:13.43]And just to think it all began on an uneventful morn

[04:18.01]Come in she said

[04:19.17]I'll give you shelter from the storm

[04:21.76]In a little hilltop village they gambled for my clothes

[04:40.43]I bargained for salvation an' she give me a lethal dose

[04:41.79]I offered up my innocence and got repaid with scorn

[04:43.41]Come in she said

[04:44.06]I'll give you shelter from the storm

[04:45.41]Well I'm livin' in a foreign country but I'm bound to cross the line

[04:48.02]Beauty walks on a razor's edge someday I'll make it mine

[04:49.19]If I could only turn back the clock to when God and her were born

[04:52.37]Come in she said

[04:53.51]I'll give you shelter from the storm