Daniel Lanois - What Good Am I? lyrics

[Verse 1] What good am I if I'm like all the rest If I just turn away, when I see how you're dressed If I shut myself off so I can't hear you cry What good am I? [Verse 2] What good am I if I know and don't do If I see and don't say, if I look right through you If I turn a deaf ear to the thundering sky What good am I? [Verse 3] What good am I while you softly weep And I hear in my head what you say in your sleep And I freeze in the moment like the rest who don't try What good am I? [Verse 4] What good am I then to others and me If I've had every chance and yet still fail to see If my hands are tied must I not wonder within Who tied them and why and where must I have been? [Verse 5] What good am I if I say foolish things And I laugh in the face of what sorrow brings And I just turn my back while you silently die What good am I?