Time and distance
Placed before thee
Hope and beauty
Have we duties
As to what each moment's given for
Stars have made us wonder
Lightning wed to thunder
Power glory
Fragile stories
Woven through eternity
Time refines us
Death resigns us
And it's clever
For it never
Tells us when that moment is to be
All these questions of existence
We pursue with such persistence
What
Where
Why
When
Is the day we will see
And each child that is unborn yet
Must remember
Must remember
And the cost of all our human progress
Is a great debt
Is a great debt
And the journey so long ago begun
And the journey so long ago begun
Is not over till we're all saved
And our lives and god are one
Through the distance
Lord please stay close by our side
Through the distance
Lord please stay close by our
