It's so easy to cash in these chips on my shoulders 
So easy to loose this old tongue like a tiger 
It's easy to let all this bitterness smolder 
Just to hide it away like a cigarette lighter 

It's easy to curse and to hurt and to hinder 
It's easy to not have the heart to remember 
That I am a priest and a prince in the Kingdom of God 

I've got voices that scream in my head like a siren 
Fears that I feel in the night when I sleep 
Stupid choices I made when I played in the mire 
Like a kid in the mud on some dirty blind street 

I've got sorrow to spare, I've got loneliness too 
I've got blood on these hands that hold on to the truth 
That I am a priest and a prince in the Kingdom of God 

I swore on the Bible not to tell a lie 
But I've lied and lied 
And I crossed my heart and I hoped to die 
And I've died and died 

But if it's true that you gathered my sin in your hand 
And you cast it as far as the east is from the west 
If it's true that you put on the flesh of a man 
And you walked in my shoes through the shadow of death 

If it's true that you dwell in the halls of my heart 
Then I'm not just a fool with a fancy guitar 
No, I am a priest and a prince in the Kingdom of God