Silence slips between us   Solitude complete   The stillness clear   And close as heaven's door      The earth beats out its 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      Wild places, somewhere   We can see the Father's hand   Wild places, somewhere   We can be alone with you   We need a promised land      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      Wild places, somewhere   We can see the Father's hand   Wild places, somewhere   We can be alone with you   We need a promised land      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   Its 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      Wild places, somewhere   We can the Father's hand   Wild places, somewhere   We can be alone with you   We need a promised land   We need a promised land