The View from Olympus (I. Prelude, II. Midnight Sun, III. The Gift of Time, IV. Out of the Flood)

Midnight sun, I know you must be shining Even as the mourning mother turns her face Heavy hangs our shame on the mantle of this moment Oh, to rise and glimpse the dream above disgrace Seasons turn, though winter's sad travailing Rolls my ragged soul against the stone And surely love, in silent, sleeping power Will claim the crown and call the children home If I had the view from Olympus Where planets dance in God's eye I know I'd see only beauty But that hill is so hard to climb If time, in all of her wisdom Would lift me up to look below I know that rest would come so easy But it's hard to live with so much left unknown Tower of every hope, you must be standing Though the thunder and the smoke withhold a sign This path of paper lanterns spirals up to meet your eyes I believe the madness only masks design Keeper of broken hearts, I know you've seen us Through the tears of every eye that is our own And I know that sacred flame waits to ignite, embrace, and lead us And remind us we will never walk alone If I had the view from Olympus Where planets dance in God's eye I know I'd see only beauty But that hill is so hard to climb If time, in all of her wisdom Would lift me up to look below I know that rest would come so easy But it's hard to live with so much left unknown Glorious, the years are glorious And they give back just as much as all they take from us And when the wheel comes 'round I know I will be found Beautiful, so bright and beautiful Carried on the patient grace of every push and pull And I won't count the cost To reclaim the heart of all I've lost Radiant, the future's radiant And tomorrow sings of promise when our spirits can't And the silver in the thunderstorm, you know Is the flower of the field that waits to grow Wondrous, the world is wondrous And there's beauty burning all around and inside of us And there's a day that lies in wait to make things new When it comes is really up to you Where questions burn and shadows fall I know that fear can make a monster of us all And when storms come that veil the stars It's so easy to lose sight of who we are Disfigured and afraid In the panicked crimson glow We weep and draw the blade Terrified that we're alone But we're not alone Where ashes fly and burdens bind The call may come to leave your innocence behind But you can stand, you can defy You can refuse to lose the love that's in your eyes We strive not with the man But the tyrant in his mind That guides his trembling hand And leaves the whole world blind And I think it's time The earth is waking from her slumber And passion pours out of the dream The mountains shake with raptured thunder And from the flood we'll come out clean There's a place I've heard called heaven You know, it's here inside us now And when we reach for every begging, bleeding hand I think we'll understand And learn to make it there somehow