When does this pain end?
I feel that fear stole my courage
It lashes me with its power
And I have to overcome, I have to overcome, I have to overcome
The battle is in my mind, I'm not lying to you
I don't have the strength to go on, but I'm not going to give up
In the desert I'm growing
In spite of what I'm living through I keep learning
What it is to have patience
I'm developing my endurance
In the desert I will leave my footprints
I will leave my footprints, I will leave my footprints
In the desert I will leave my footprints
I will leave my footprints, I will leave my footprints in the desert
I have to win the war against anxiety
I have a life and I'm going to fight for it
Like a lion roaring in the darkness
I'm going to overcome, I'm going to overcome
Deliver me from panic and insomnia
Renew my mind, rebuke the guilt and my demons
This is one day at a time without losing faith
What I don't understand now, I'm going to understand later
I'm creating new habits with sacrifice
Dropping the vices and hitting exercise hard
The vultures won't eat my leftovers
Because I'm a warrior in the midst of the shadows
The wind whispers its words of fear to me
But I resist, I'm going to win the battle inside me
No child of God loses the war against depression, yo
In the desert I'm growing
In spite of what I'm living through I keep learning
What it is to have patience
I'm developing my endurance
In the desert I will leave my footprints
I will leave my footprints, I will leave my footprints
In the desert I will leave my footprints
I will leave my footprints, I will leave my footprints in the desert
Place of affliction, of transformation
Place of thirst, place of faith!
Place of resilience experience
Place of the weak, place of the strong
Place of life, place of death
When I faced what I feared
I realized that I wasn't as weak as I thought
Lord, make me see that you're always there
Clear my confusion, bring me back to you
Help me believe in your word, not in my emotions
You gave me power to crush snakes and scorpions
Self-control governs my feelings
I keep renewing myself through suffering
I feel that you're making me a new me
In the desert I'm growing
In spite of what I'm living through I keep learning
What it is to have patience
I'm developing my endurance
In the desert I will leave my footprints
I will leave my footprints, I will leave my footprints
In the desert I will leave my footprints
I will leave my footprints, I will leave my footprints in the desert