Mirage

Wrote this song a few years back when we were deeply thrust in a very heavy time as a church. I was very discouraged and disillusioned and I felt God just say to me "I am the morning, I am the light to chase away the mist, I am the truth when all else is a mirage." Hence, I wrote this song. Included is a VERY rough recording of a live performance my band, Acrobat, did of this song. The sound quality is quite awful, but it gives one an idea of how the song goes. We re-did it for a performance at the Daytona Beach Bandshell but that one wasn't recorded. Enjoy! :)

"Mirage" - Bethany S. Moore (2008)

                                          Take a look at what you promised me.

It wasn’t meant to be, wasn’t meant to be.

You said you’d fill the void within my heart,

yet now it seems much deeper and the night

is falling fast.

Take a look at what you promised to be.

You’re not what you meant to be,

what you were meant to be.

                                          And when the day is done

the heavy night will fall.

The darkness like a shroud

around you will enfold.

                                          Oh, can’t you see that all you are is a mirage?

You cannot quench the thirsty, instead you leave them yearning

for something more.

Sometimes at night I like awake

and my mind races, I wonder why I’m here.

Sometimes at night my heart aches—

like a man in the desert longing for something to drink.

Oh, you were lovely when you were young.

But now you’re but a ghost, a reflection of the past.

When will your ethereal heart become like flesh?

When will you see the broken and hungry in your midst?

                                         And when the morning comes

the shadows they will flee.

The mist will give way to light,

the truth at last be seen.

                                                       

                                                                                                                                                                      

                                          Then you will see that all  you are is a mirage.

You do not quench the thirsty,

you only leave them yearning—

When will you see that you are just a mirage?

You can never quench us, you only leave us yearning.

Oh Lord, I know that you are not a mirage.

Yet sometimes my faith is so frail.

Oh Lord I know you’re not a mirage.

You are what I’m yearning for,

you alone quench my thirst.

You are the morning,

the light to chase away the mist.

You are the truth.