Higher Ground

Your smile cuts through a smoky room
 Chasing silence from the air
 Your empty eyes and hollow smile
 Complement your vacant stare
 There's something more
 To stand on
 Something of worth to live
 Your life on
 Higher ground, on higher ground
 Build your house where love resounds
 Higher ground, on higher ground
 See your purpose from higher ground
 Your determined words dance on my heart
 You're like a conscience in my ear
 Your laughing smile and brilliant eyes
 Remind me why I'm here
 There's something more
 To stand on
 Something of worth to live
 Your life on
 Higher ground, on higher ground
 Build your house where love resounds
 Higher ground, on higher ground
 See your purpose from higher ground
 Higher ground, on higher ground
 Build your house where love resounds
 Higher ground, on higher ground
 See your purpose from higher ground
 The sight of you on your feet
 Face streaked with the crystal glow of tears
 To show that love had saved you
 And truth amazed you is the vision
 I will take with me wherever I go
 Higher ground, on higher ground
 See your purpose from higher ground
 Higher ground, on higher ground
 Build your house where love resounds
 Higher ground, on higher ground
 See your purpose from higher ground