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