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Different Sides

Matthew West, copyright 2006

 

It’s a roller coaster ride.

It’s a hide-and-seek

of the mundane grind

and the mystery:

up and down

in and out

around and around,

faith through doubt

 

Chorus:   The twiddle of thumbs

              and the helter-skelter,

              under the gun

              and under shelter,

             they're just different sides

             of the same ride

             through the mystery.

 

Clueless at the threshold

speechless in the middle

minds too stiff to hold

the rhyme or the riddle,

but with hands in the air,

and screaming,,

we take the dare,

and go dreaming.

 

Chorus

 

Bridge

 

God stitches space

with comedy,

laces grace

with irony,

And those with a taste

for mystery

go grinning to their graves

 

Chorus