C F C C G It's enough to drive a man crazy, it'll break a man's faith Am C It's enough to make him wonder, if he's ever been sane F Am When he's bleating for comfort from Thy staff and Thy rod G C And the Heaven's only answer is the silence of God C G It'll shake a man's timbers when he loses his heart Am C When he has to remember what broke him apart F Am This yoke may be easy but this burden is not G C When the crying fields are frozen by the silence of God Am Am/G F C And if a man has got to listen to the voices of the mob Am Am/G F C Who are reeling in the throes of all the happiness they've got Am When they tell you all their troubles F Have been nailed up to that cross Dm Em F Then what about the times when even followers get lost? F 'Cause we all get lost sometimes C G There's a statue of Jesus on a monastery knoll F G In the hills of Kentucky, all quiet and cold C G And He's kneeling in the garden, as silent as a Stone F G All His friends are sleeping and He's weeping all alone F Am And the man of all sorrows, he never forgot G C What sorrow is carried by the hearts that he bought C/E F Am So when the questions dissolve into the silence of God G C The aching may remain but the breaking does not C/E F Am The aching may remain but the breaking does not G C In the holy, lonesome echo of the silence of God