A GLASS, DARKLY [Verse 1] When I was a child, I spake as a child, Lord, as a child I understood. Thought this body was the whole of the house, thought the dark was nothin' but the wood. [Verse 2] They told me I'm ashes, ashes to ashes, I'm bone, Lord, I'm bone to bone. But I been buildin' someone out past the bone, someone the grave can't own. [Chorus] 'Cause now I see through a glass, darkly, a glass, darkly, Lord. Now I see through a glass, darkly, but I am known. Oh, I'm growin'... and I am known. [Verse 3] When I became a man, I put away childish things, now I'm puttin' away the man. Shed this skin like a snake on the levee, got wires runnin' where the river ran. [Bridge] To earth returned, to void, to naught, that's what the preacher said. But every word and every deed I made is still livin' when I'm dead. And every bird gonna sing the wonder of the name I'm makin' new, 'cause the clay can only hold me till the light comes breakin' through. [Chorus] Now I see through a glass, darkly, a glass, darkly, Lord. But the glass is gettin' thinner, thinner, and I am known. [Outro - spoken, low] For now we see through a glass, darkly, but then face to face. Now I know in part... but then shall I know, even as also I am known.
