Well now on a summer night in a dusky room
  Come a little piece of the Lord's undying light
  Crying like he swallowed the fiery moon
  In his mother's arms it was all the beauty I could take
  Like the missing words to some prayer that I could never make
  In a world so hard and dirty so fouled and confused
  Searching for a little bit of God's mercy
  I found living proof
    I put my heart and soul I put 'em high upon a shelf
  Right next to the faith the faith that I'd lost in myself
  I went down into the desert city
  Just tryin' so hard to shed my skin
  I crawled deep into some kind of darkness
  Lookin' to burn out every trace of who I'd been
  You do some sad sad things baby
  When it's your you 're tryin' to lose
  You do some sad and hurtful things
  I've seen living proof
    You shot through my anger and rage
  To show me my prison was just an open cage
  There were no keys no guards
  Just one frightened man and some old shadows for bars
    Well now all that's sure on the boulevard
  Is that life is just a house of cards
  As fragile as each and every breath
  Of this boy sleepin' in our bed
  Tonight let's lie beneath the eaves
  Just a close band of happy thieves
  And when that train comes we'll get on board
  And steal what we can from the treasures of the Lord
  It's been along long drought baby
  Tonight the rain's pourin' down on our roof
  Looking for a little bit of God's mercy
  I found living proof