I Will Return - Lyrics - Daniel Amos

Daniel Amos is an American Christian rock band formed in 1974 by Terry Scott Taylor on guitars and vocals, Marty Dieckmeyer on bass guitar, Steve Baxter on guitars and Jerry Chamberlain on lead guitars. Current members include bassist Tim Chandler, guitarist Greg Flesch and drummer Ed McTaggart. Over the band's career, they have experimented with country rock, rock, new wave, and alternative rock.

And the city stood In a glowing splendor 'Til her ashes were laid in an urn Beneath a fast food counter I will return The descendants were born And they danced their dances Then the sound of their stumbling was great Tilting the world on it's axis I will return And the women gazed in their mirrors Suitors brought them vials of perfume(Quiet lives of desperation) Then golden-haired locusts with the faces of angels Sealed each of them up in a metal cocoon And the life ran out Just when it all seemed better Here is a display in a granite museum A shame on view forever I will return, I will return And the birdcage was eventually opened A great flock of nuns flew away (Meeting no one's expectations) And the saints who had slept on a head of a pin Came down from the sky at the end of all days And the city stood In a glowing splendor 'Til her ashes were laid in an urn Beneath a fast food counter I will return (I will be coming like a thief in the night) I will return (I will be coming like a thief in the night)...