I Used To Know How To Walk On Water

I used to know how to walk on water
I used to be so unafraid
I could save the weakest tyrant
And I could knight the proudest slave
I could give riches to the beggars
And give love to the one who hates
I could tempt a whore so frozen
And I could torture the strength of fate

I used to know how to walk on water
A king of kings they knew me well
I could give sight to every blind man
And I make the mute sing in hell
But now
I watch with awe and wonder
Doubt has now befallen me
I ask the lord
To show me mercy
And to give me sympathy

Forgive me now
My useless thunder
When I was such a dynamo
I am here
And I am humble
For I know not
Which way to go

I used to know how to walk on water
I could give a dead heart life
I could murder the joy of satan
And make his mistress
Be my wife
I would be a dream of cowards
And they would never resemble me
I could see them
Doubt me under
As I set
Each one free

Now I just
Sit and wonder
What illness has befallen me
A sicker mind
Makes me surrender
To this world
Of vacancy

Forgive me now
My useless thunder
When I was such a dynamo
I am here
And I am humble
For I know not
Which way to go

I used to know how to walk on water
Now I sink in the dirt
No kind sun or holy laughter
Seems to reach beyond the hurt
I used to know how to walk on water
I used to be at peace with love
And all its strength and all its power
Would lift me up so high above

A burning star
A holy wonder
Women would rush to be with me
But now I'm lost
Inside the thunder
Of pain which holds insanity

Forgive me now
My useless thunder
When I was such a dynamo
I am here
And I am humble
For I know not
Which way to go
 
(Joseph Arthur)