A Benediction Lyrics


I feel my walls coming down

I feel you there in everything I see

Feel the weight slowly lifting

With every step, with every breath I breathe

I am uncertain if there is a God

But if there is, I am quite certain

That none of our paradigms

For understanding Him

Are close to sufficient

And they are all of them befouled

With vanity and ulterior impetus

And I am certain

Perhaps callowly

That this world that surrounds us

In all its calamitous beauty

And scintillating horror

Its senseless order and tempered chaos

Could never have been realized without intent

This is my vision of God

A formless, sovereign, unfathomable intent

Engaged in a CMS of panoptic scale

Fastidious in its construction

And not ambivalent, but omnivalent

To its unraveling

For my uncertainty

I am certain of this

I looked at my hands

And saw they were yours

I was suddenly you

Sitting in your room

And I realized that the only thing

That separates me from you

Is the choices we’ve made

The paths that we’ve walked

And the architecture of our hearts

What absurdity to feel alone

To feel you’ve been left here with nothing

We are all threads woven of the same fabric

Adjoining

In a cosmic latticework

Of possibility

Everything is always

Already here, and it’s

Waiting for you to reach

Out and take what is yours

Everything is always

Already here, and it’s

Waiting for you to reach out

You and me

The invisible, infrangible bonds between us

Sun, and air, and moon, and earth

The perdurant undulation of the tides

The lights of the city refracting

The sun-dappled grass

The quiet rustling of leaves in the autumn wind

And the immutable truth

That as long as we are alive

We will always have the chance to be happy

O glory

Kind stranger who cries in the dark

With hands clasped

And watches it all fall apart

God is in all of us

We are boundless, eternal

There is no room left for fear in my heart

Only love, and song, and fervour

And hope that a better world is possible

If we try

If we make it out alive

If we make it home tonight

Then nothing can take this from us

If we make it through the night

There’ll be nothing left but light

That shines out from deep inside us