Hard Confessions

Lyrics

Hard Confessions
Dirt Road Gospel Music
DirtRoadGospelMusic.com

[Verse 1]
Church bells ringin' up the road, I ain't been inside in years
Nineteen missed calls from my brother I'm too wrecked to hear
My weddin' band's in a junk drawer with receipts and rubber bands
And Mama's dog-eared Bible sits unopened in my hands

[Chorus]
These are my hard confessions, I'm sayin' 'em out loud
I'm a liar, a cheat, a drunkard, too stubborn and too proud
I drowned my weddin' promises, I wore the blame like chains
These are my hard confessions — I'm callin' out their names

[Verse 2]
I lied to keep a paycheck, then I drank that paycheck dry
Pawned her grandmama's silver, looked her in the eye and lied
I blamed the wife, I blamed the boss, I blamed my daddy's belt
But it's just me in this kitchen, and there's nobody else

[Chorus]
These are my hard confessions, I'm sayin' 'em out loud
I'm a liar, a cheat, a drunkard, too stubborn and too proud
I drowned my weddin' promises, I wore the blame like chains
These are my hard confessions — I'm callin' out their names

[Bridge]
I opened Mama's Bible where her ribbon marked the page
Underlined in shaky ink, the words she used to pray
"If we confess our sins to Him, He's faithful and He's just
To forgive us and to cleanse us" — Lord, if that's true, here's all of it

[Break]
So I hit that kitchen floor and called out every name
And them bells outside kept ringin', but they didn't sound the same

[Final Chorus]
You heard my hard confessions, every word I said out loud
The liar, cheat, and drunkard, the stubborn and the proud
You are faithful, You are just, You washed away the stains
Those were my hard confessions — and You knew 'em all by name

[Outro]
Same kitchen, same old table, Sunday mornin' again
But now I'm up that road with Mama's Bible, walkin' in
If you got hard confessions, He already knows your name
Say 'em out loud — He's faithful — He'll do for you the same