When Love Was King

When pain didn't reign and love was king

We could wash our hand of most anything

But i inherited my father's sin

I was born and raised in the midst of it

Before a preacher spoke those words in red

And holy men would bow their heads

Before I was the man I am

The oldest son of Abraham

The day I drowned in fire and stone

I found out what I'd always known

I still remember

I still see

A heart that trusts

and a voice that sings

When pain didn't reign and love was king

My daddy was a gambler,a drinking man

He showed his love with the back of his hand

I never saw him smile, not a flicker of grace

Think he buried em with mama in the Tennessee clay

The day I drowned in fire and stone

I found out what I'd always know

I still remember

I still see

A heart that trusts

and a voice that sings

When pain didn't reign and love was king

The day I drowned in fire and stone

I found out what I'd always know

But I still remember

I still see

A heart that trusts

and a voice that sings

When pain didn't reign and love was king

A heart that trusts

and a voice that sings

Like when pain didn't reign and love was king