The bad guys have it in for the good guys

as they go out to mug the defenseless

insolent souls lost in a moral circus

like a joke with no punchline

slapstick men on a dead-end course.

Keep company with God,

when you're a long way from home

on a dark lonely road

he will show you where to go.

He has never let you down 

or looked away when you were being kicked around 

after you wandered off to do your own thing 

he has been waiting and listening,

watching over you, in grace, love, and truth.