Adam WarRock - Preacher Book lyrics

[Verse 1: Adam WarRock] Once we breached the atmosphere and felt the coldness of space We realized how small we were and felt the tears on our face We wrote the books that tried to comfort all those beings of faith Not finding Heaven or something similar in its place A single man could walk the earth and make his own mistakes He fights and robs, he k**s and steals, reconnaissance for days He double-crosses his heart and tries to throw it away He's left without a name, and so he takes the first that came He's found God now, people think it's odd how A man with such a past could be the shepherd to a flock now He watches souls pa**, they drift beyond his view And now he's talking through me just as I'm talking to you [Hook] Preacher Book was a friend of mine Though we never really seemed to see eye to eye And it makes me wonder why good men have to die Like God's got a plan, I don't really have the time Preacher Book was a friend of mine Though we never really seemed to see eye to eye And it makes me wonder why good men have to die As if God's got a plan, I don't think I understand why [Verse 2] And I remember all those conversations, late nights Mess halls, cheap wine, insults and fake fights We laughed at how we couldn't see the other's side And he asked me how I knew that my soul wasn't alive He said that God, we couldn't understand or fathom He revealed himself less through peoples' words And more through peoples' unseen actions He asked me to consider how we got to sit together Through the twists of fate, as if chance could make those twists happen And through the battle, he would save my life so many times And at night he took the crew's confessions when they cried And still that vision's how he's frozen in my mind I find I'm hoping that I see him on the other side [Hook] [Verse 3] So now we're still on the run, unmistaken That the times are simply darker since our last mission on Haven Where we found our fallen partner, felt the loss So now I wear a wooden cross Around my neck, though I'm far beyond a shepherd's savin' I try to keep the vengeance out of my soul I try to turn the other cheek just like the shepherd had told I try to read the words of wisdom in the notes that he wrote The name of Derrial Book, I wonder whose life he stole And so I knew a man, he was a man of faith I knew a friend, a man who tried though I couldn't be saved And still I pray to God I'll get to see that shepherd's face When I die, when I walk up to those pearly gates [Hook]