Chords of a Man - Checker Work and Chain Lyrics

I watched your glory fade just like the setting sun
Till nothing there was bright
Its splendor wasn't quite the same
The seed you'd sow would spoil the sunrise you begun
Jaded by its light
It fell on me despite the shame

These nets of checkerwork and chain
And hours spent in vain
Praying that they'd let me go
Surround me like a thorny crown
Encircled there I found
A bed where trusting lilies grow

Be strong and be a man, you sagely iterate
With a heart beguiled
And legacy defiled by sin
Situations intermix and complicate
Though I'm a little child
It's time my reconciling begins

These nets of checkerwork and chain
And hours spent in vain
Praying that they'd let me go
Surround me like a thorny crown
Encircled there I found
A bed where trusting lilies grow

Oh, aah, may the trusting lilies grow
Oh, aah, may the trusting lilies grow

These nets of checkerwork and chain
And hours spent in vain
Praying that they'd let me go
Surround me like a thorny crown
Encircled there I found
A bed where trusting lilies grow