Lyrics

and if you ask - will we still be in darkness?
and if you ask - will we still be in silence?
and if you ask - will we always be waiting?
and if you ask - will we still be lonely?

and if you ask - will there be anything to hear?
and if you ask - will there be anything to feel?
and if you ask - how will we communicate?
and if you ask - will there be anything to see?

YOU’LL SEE colours like you won’t believe
purple mountains that cross each other as you move by
purple irises swooping down the golden mountainside
spilling over the water-cressèd banks into rivers
turquoised with fish and lined with bear
that flow out through mauven valleys
to the flashing semaphore of the sparkling sea 
way out there

and if you ask - will we have names there?
and if you ask - do we get to choose our own?
and if you ask - what kind of things will we hear?
and if you ask - what’s this thing called music?

YOU’LL HEAR music in the birdsong
in the peeper frogs at night
music in the thunder, and the sandhill cranes in flight
music full of healing that some of you will write
music that can lift your spirits when you’re down
and make you laugh and cry
and if you ask - what about the body thing?
and if you ask - will we get to choose our own?
and if you ask - what kind of things will we feel?
and if you ask - will we still be lonely?

YOU WILL FEEL joy and pain 
and everything in between
exhilaration when you run, exultation when you sing
you will feel astonishment at the beauty 
of all living things
elephants, dragonflies, beneath starry skies above
but the most wondrous thing
the most wondrous thing you’ll feel
will be this thing called Love

PRAYER 
may we always grateful be
to live in such a place of beauty
may we always take good care of thee

BOUNTIFUL BEAUTIFUL …
(sing-along, get your bongos out)