In the Pits

Everybody says, It could be worse

Like that's supposed to make it hurt less

Funny how the ones you're close to

Can be the ones who leave you wrecked

I keep thinking, Here's the bottom

Then I find another inch

Lord, I'm trying not to lose You

But lately life's been the pits

Every time I think, This is it

Life finds a deeper pit

I've been in the pits, I've been down low

Taking roads I wouldn't take if I could choose the road

Every place I thought You lost me

You were already there

I've been in the pits, I've been knocked down

But You keep doing something with the lowest ground

Maybe You don't waste the places

I would never choose to go

I've done right and still got blamed

I've stayed true and still got burned

Lost some things for doing right

That I thought doing right would earn

Watched the doors swing wide for others

While I'm waiting for my turn

I've been praying in the silence

Wondering if I've been heard

Every time I think, This is it

I remember who You've been

I've been in the pits, I've been down low

Taking roads I wouldn't take if I could choose the road

Every place I thought You lost me

You were already there

I've been in the pits, I've been knocked down

But You keep doing something with the lowest ground

Maybe You don't waste the places

I would never choose to go

A brother sold

A servant blamed

A prisoner

Without a name

A dream delayed

A promise kept

God was moving

Every step

Pit to chains

Chains to bars

Bars to Pharaoh

There You are

Down, down, down

That's how it looked

Up, up, up

That's where You took him

Joseph couldn't see it

From the bottom looking up

Maybe I don't need to see it

To believe You're not done

So I don't need a palace

I don't need to know what's next

If You were God down in the prison

Then You're God down here as well

I'm still in the pits, I'm still down low

Still can't see what You'll redeem from everything that's broke

What somebody meant to hurt me

You can somehow turn for good

I'm still in the pits, still knocked down

But You keep doing something with the lowest ground

Maybe You don't waste the places

I would never choose to go

In the pits

In the pits

I don't have to know what's next

If You're with me at the bottom

I can trust You with the rest