I Am

Take me instead

I'll stand in the middle

A Martyr once said

Hoping to deliver us

Take me instead

I'll stand in the middle

When the river runs red

Hoping for deliverance

Defiant

I'll become the shelter in the hope

That my death gives more before oblivion

I'm hoping that the river runs dry yet

I am all of who I am

Wear the face of all I know I am

I am all of who I am

I the tested

I the broken stand

Take me instead

I'll stand unforgiven

When the river runs red

Hoping this delivers us

Defiant

I'm become the shelter in the hope

That my death gives more

Before oblivion

Hoping that the river runs dry yet

I am all of who I am

Wear the face of all I know I am

I am all of who I am

I the tested

I the broken stand

On the inside

Born a slave here in denial

But I am free now

I am just holding my own sacred line

That I will keep on following

For the one wears the eyes that I conceived

Mine offered up

I will brace, bleed and defy

The moment that the river runs

I am all of who I am

Wear the face of all I know I am

Both the liar and the honest man

I the tested

I the broken stand

I'm hoping to deliver us

Hoping that the river runs dry