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[00:02.96]I'm Peter van der Hold
[00:06.00]I'm 68 years old
[00:10.17]I doubt some questions have increased
[00:13.18]In 42 years of being a priest
[00:18.11]I'm at the end of my life
[00:21.17]I'm not sure if I'm gonna survive
[00:24.10]I often don't know what to say
[00:28.15]When I talk to Him, when I pray
[00:33.15]In reply I receive
[00:36.25]Only silence, no relief
[00:40.27]I've waited in vain for a little advice
[00:43.27]From that great voice in the ethereal skies
[00:48.24]Once I was revolutionary
[01:08.37]A devoted mercenary
[01:11.37]A gifted student in God's hands
[01:15.38]Now I'm old and sick of his demands
[01:20.33]I tried to be honest and good
[01:24.33]Did my job the best I could
[01:27.38]But I always stayed that average man
[01:31.36]Right in the spot where I'll began
[01:36.22]During the grief with which I've dealt
[01:40.37]Spent three decades since I've felt
[01:44.32]The certainty I so have thought 'bout the existence of the Lord
[01:51.46]I've seen enough, that's why I know
[02:00.40]God left this place, long long time ago
[02:08.47]I'll give him to my perish
[02:30.53]Things I don't have myself but cherish
[02:33.56]And namely love and charity
[02:37.56]Mostly purpose that's what sets you free
[02:42.51]So I'm where the metaphore
[02:45.59]I'm not comforting anymore
[02:50.53]I think I'm almost done with my search
[02:54.52]Got old so fast even in my church
[02:59.57]But feels as if I'm kept out
[03:02.62]Some sort of secret about
[03:06.63]The meaning of life sometimes
[03:10.64]Can't fail to notice these are mediocre types
[03:15.63]I've seen enough, that's why I know
[03:23.69]God left this place, long long time ago
[03:30.79]I've seen enough, that's why I know
[03:38.79]God left this place, long long time ago
[03:46.76]And time has made me good at one thing
[03:51.76]And horrible at everything else
[03:55.83]The blessings of a world divine
[03:58.84]Were always elsewhere and never mine
[04:04.84]Oh, I would like to hold someone
[04:07.92]Briefly maybe have some fun
[04:11.97]My body's hardly designed
[04:14.98]So I'm not really the hugging kind
[04:19.90]Not once has it been
[04:24.05]Someone with a softer skin
[04:26.91]Who reached out for me in the middle of the night
[04:32.07]'Cause my own lumpy mattress would've turn on the light
[04:37.07]I think I've been miscast
[04:41.07]And the time of saints is passed
[04:44.07]My faith is reclassed but not least
[04:48.13]After 42 years of being a priest
[04:53.10]The church is like a woman
[04:56.13]Thing out of reach like a vision
[05:00.10]She glimmers in the distance which I could never quite get
[05:05.22]Now I've left you with my regret
[05:09.23]I've seen enough, that's why I know
[05:16.24]God left this place, long long time ago
[05:24.24]I've seen enough, that's why I know
[05:39.31]God left this place, long long time ago
[05:40.36]I've seen enough, that's why I know
[05:48.38]God left this place, long long time ago
[05:54.36]I've seen enough, that's why I know
[06:01.39]God left this place, long long time ago
[06:08.47]It's my portion, it's my call...
[06:53.45]It's my portion, it's my call...
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