Nobody Asked Why?

THEY CALLED IT THE DARK AGES [Verse 1] I was reading through a history book On a rainy afternoon, Pages talking ’bout the Dark Ages And the centuries they moved through. They said kingdoms rose and crumbled, Said the world was cold and poor, Just a thousand years of silence Standing somewhere in before. Then Revelation twenty Started pulling at my mind, A thousand years with Satan bound, And Christ enthroned through all that time. And I wondered why the timeline Left that thousand-year space behind, Like a kingdom everybody mentioned But nobody could seem to find. [Verse 2] I imagined bells at sunrise Echoing across the countryside, Children running through the market With no fear they had to hide. No great wars consuming nations, No endless kings demanding more, Just generations growing older Knowing peace instead of war. Cathedrals caught the morning light, White stone glowing in the dawn, Built by men who thought their work Would still be standing long after gone. And I wondered if they knew What would happen after then, When deception found its footing Back among the sons of men. [Chorus] They called it the Dark Ages… But the light still fills the stone. They called it the Dark Ages… Yet the greatest works were known. They called it the Dark Ages… But the bells still crossed the sky. If the world was lost in darkness… Why did nobody ask why? They called it the Dark Ages… And nobody asked why. [Verse 3] I walk past old stone buildings, Banks and schools and courthouse walls, Wondering what they might have been Before somebody renamed them all. What if people simply inherited Things they didn’t understand? Living in the work of others Long removed from human hands. What if names kept slowly changing As the centuries rolled by? Till nobody remembered The reason why they touched the sky. Like heirs living in a palace Who forgot who built it first, Living off an old inheritance Without remembering its worth. [Verse 4] I think about the orphan children Riding rails across the land, Passing through a changing world Too young to understand. Maybe someone told old stories Of a brighter age gone by, But each generation heard them Just a little less with time. And by the time the children told them, People smiled and looked away, Calling memory superstition, Calling history a fairy tale. What if those who still remembered Started sounding strange with time? Not because they lost their reason— Because the trail was hard to find. [Chorus] They called it the Dark Ages… But the light still fills the stone. They called it the Dark Ages… Yet the greatest works were known. They called it the Dark Ages… But the bells still crossed the sky. If the world was lost in darkness… Why did nobody ask why? They called it the Dark Ages… And nobody asked why. [Bridge] I picture people in that kingdom Walking roads they knew by name, Never thinking future ages Might forget from where they came. Children growing into old age, Watching grandkids fill the square, Certain peace would last forever, Never dreaming it was rare. Then the stories grew a little fainter, Then the memories grew thin, And the world kept moving forward… Till nobody remembered them. And I thought about the warning Jesus gave so long ago, How deception in the last days Would be stronger than we know. Strong enough that even faithful Men could miss what lay in view, Certain they were waiting for it When it had already passed through. [Verse 5] Now people wait for tribulation, Watch the headlines every day, Looking for a future kingdom Somewhere farther down the way. And I wonder if those people Would have thought the same back then, Standing near the end of something They believed would never end. Would they see the season changing? Would they know the thousand years were through? Or would they wake each morning certain Everything they knew was true? [Final Chorus] They called it the Dark Ages… But the light still fills the stone. They called it the Dark Ages… Yet the greatest works were known. They called it the Dark Ages… But the bells still crossed the sky. If the world was lost in darkness… Why did nobody ask why? They called it the Dark Ages… And nobody asked why. Nobody asked why. Nobody asked why. [Outro] I was reading through a history book On a rainy afternoon… And Revelation twenty Made me wonder about the past.