[Verse 1] Everybody’s staring downward At a little glowing sun Thumbs are moving fast as lightning But no real words get spoken much The streets are full but hearts are empty Every silence quickly filled With another stream of voices Telling us what we should feel [Chorus] There’s so much noise in the valley now So much shouting in the air How can we hear the voice of God When distractions pull us everywhere? We used to find Him in the stillness In the quiet of the dawn Now the silence makes us nervous So we keep the headphones on [Verse 2] Families sitting round the table Lost in separate little worlds Children growing up connected But forgetting how to hurt Old songs fading in the background Church bells drowned out by the screen Everybody wants attention No one knows what peace can mean [Chorus] There’s so much noise in the valley now So much buzzing in our minds How can we hear the voice of God When we never leave the wires behind? We used to walk beneath the heavens And listen to the wind Now we trade our souls for echoes And begin again and again [Bridge] Maybe Heaven still is speaking Soft as rain on broken ground But we built our lives on chaos And forgot to turn it down [Final Chorus] There’s so much noise in the valley now Still Your whisper calls our name Somewhere underneath the static Burns an everlasting flame So let the screens go dark around us Let the restless world slow down Maybe we could hear You calling If we laid our burdens down [Outro] ( soft spoken word ) In the quiet… In the stillness… You were there all along…if only we had ears to hear .....
