1. Silence slips between us, solitude complete
   The stillness clear and close as heaven's door
   The earth beats out it's rhythm, in slow and perfect time
   Counterpoint and harmonies, life's melodies entwine
   And we fight the battle here where there's time to fall in step
   The secrets are still known here, but the secrets never kept 

R: Wild places, somewhere we can see the Father's hand
   Wild places, somewhere we can be alone with you
   We need a promised land. 
   
2. Maybe we'll be wounded in the healing,
   It's to be broken to be sure
   Can we embrace this strange awakening together?
   Is wisdom carved into creation?
   The old relationships defined
   As forbidding as her truth may be
   We'll learn her ways with time
   We'll learn to take it as it comes
   We can't change faster than we can
   Already we're a long way from the children we began 
R:
   
   Wood smoke rising, faces alive in the firelight
   Forsaking the road and making it home to be there tonight
   The young making good what they found in the wood
   What they learned of a land
   Putting dreams back together
   Talking it through, reaching out for the hand 
   
   There's a moment caught suspended
   Communion born between our eyes
   Our vision clears it's golden flight ascending
   And we have seen what we have come for
   And we will some day see again
   But we have climbed into the mountains
   So we must climb back down 'til then 
   
   But we'll take it as it is crazy with love and disbelief
   And the magic of your morning
   The wilderness, the peace
R:

   ...somewhere we can Touch the Father's hand.... 
   
   We need a promised land.