Brave

You paint a tulip red with joy

You say the psalm, I will not fear

Somehow, knowing what you do know

Still you tremble out and in

You cry up in your room

Aunt Ruthie comes, you cannot still your limbs

Somehow knowing what you do know

Still you tremble out and in

You see how I go to pieces

That I'm laying on the ground

Like the sky is so heavy

When I could be brave

And I always go to pieces

And I have it in my mind

That the sky is tall and heavy

When I could be brave, brave

You go outside, you see the Holy Spirit

Burning in your trees

And walk on, glowing with the same glow

Still you tremble out and in

And the birds of all your yellow teacups sing

And you know this hymn

Somehow knowing what you do know

Still you tremble out and in

See how I go to pieces

That I'm laying on the ground

That the sky is so heavy

When I could be brave, brave

Oh I know it, I know it, here is God beside

I meant it, I meant I'm sure of that

But the sky is tall and heavy

When I could be brave, brave

Brave