Well the moon moved past Nebraska    And spilled laughter on them cold Dakota Hills    And angels danced on Jacob's stairs    Yeah, they danced on Jacob's stairs    There is this silence in the Badlands    And over Kansas the whole universe was stilled    By the whisper of a prayer    The whisper of a prayer       And the single hawk bursts into flight    And in the east the whole horizon is in flames    I feel thunder in the sky    I see the sky about to rain    And I hear the prairies calling out Your name       I can feel the earth tremble    Beneath the rumbling of the buffalo hooves    And the fury in the pheasant's wings    And there's fury in a pheasant's wings    It tells me the Lord is in His temple    And there is still a faith that can make the mountains move    And a love that can make the heavens ring    And I've seen love make heaven ring       Where the sacred rivers meet    Beneath the shadow of the Keeper of the plains    I feel thunder in the sky    I see the sky about to rain    And I hear the prairies calling out Your name       From the place where morning gathers    You can look sometimes forever 'til you see    What time may never know    What time may never know    How the Lord takes by its corners this old world    And shakes us forward and shakes us free    To run wild with the hope    To run wild with the hope       The hope that this thirst will not last long    That it will soon drown in the song not sung in vain    And I feel thunder in the sky    I see the sky about to rain    And I hear the prairies calling out Your name       And I know this thirst will not last long    That it will soon drown in the song not sung in vain    I feel thunder in the sky    I see the sky about to rain    And with the prairies I am calling out Your name