By Eric Smith (2000?)
I wrote this song when some friends of mine were undergoing a very difficult and painful time in their life though no fault of their own. These sorts of circumstances remind us that we will never be completely happy in this life. It will always be a strange mixture of bitter and sweet. Strange in the sense that we won’t always know exactly why we suffer some things and others do not (that’s the bitter part); sweet because in spite of our sufferings we can be substantially fulfilled in this life because we know Jesus Christ. My friends were and continue to be faithful followers of Jesus Christ. I admire their example.
Sometimes
the walk seems so far, seems so hard
Other
times it seems so sweet, the ground
beneath my feet
Most
of the time its in between,
A
strange mixture of bitter and sweet. . .
Sometimes
I feel so shy, I want to hide, don’t want to try
Other
times I feel so good, I’d stay up all night if I could
Most
of the time its in between,
A
strange mixture of bitter and sweet. . .
I
know there’s more outside these walls, one day we’ll rise up from this fall
But
until the day we’re set free, we’ll live in a room called bittersuite
In
a room called bittersuite
Face
the bitter, enjoy the sweet
In
a place that’s in between
Putting
faith in the unseen
But
don’t lose heart, as we decay
We’re
being renewed day by day
Our
pain is real, our pain we share
But
to what awaits, it can’t compare
Most
of the time its in between,
A
strange mixture of bitter and sweet. . .
In
a room called bitter-suite
Face
the bitter, enjoy the sweet
In
a place that’s in between
Putting
faith in the unseen,
In
a place that’s in between
We
put faith in the unseen