Time & Distance (The Dash)

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 'til 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