[Intro] (Feature Instrumental only) [Whisper] Forty years beneath this sky Dust upon my hands and eyes I asked the wind how far remained The silence spoke my name [Verse I] Day by day, the sand moved on No map beneath the burning dawn I carried doubt inside my chest And called it faith at best I counted losses, counted scars Measured distance by the stars Yet every step I feared to take Still found the ground beneath [Fragment] Who held the thread When I could not see? [Verse II] The clothes upon my weary bones Never faded into dust The sandals worn through endless miles Still carried all my trust Water in forgotten places Mercy hidden in the plain I searched for signs of Your nearness And found Your hand in rain [Crescendo] Forty years of asking why Forty years beneath this sky I thought the desert meant absence But You were walking all this time When my strength became surrender When my answers fell away Grace was not the end of longing Grace was staying [Release] Now the wind no longer frightens me The silence is not empty Every grain of sand remembers I was never left alone [Closing] The road was long The night was wide My feet grew tired But not abandoned Forty years through wilderness And still— Your faithfulness endured.
