[INTRO – UNACCOMPANIED FEMALE CONTRALTO, SLOW AND DEEP] Before my eyes could see it... Before my ears could hear... Before my mind could understand... Something in me knew You were near. [LOW MALE CHOIR ENTERS – A CAPPELLA] Mmmmm... My spirit knew... Mmmmm... My spirit knew... [VERSE 1 – FEMALE CONTRALTO] There was a stirring in the midnight hour, A quiet knowing, a gentle power. No one had spoken, no one had called, Still I felt something moving through it all. I couldn't name it, couldn't explain, Couldn't describe what my soul contained. But underneath what the world could see, Something eternal was speaking to me. [CHOIR – RICH FOUR-PART HARMONY] My spirit knew! (MY SPIRIT KNEW!) Before I understood! (BEFORE I UNDERSTOOD!) There was a witness deep inside, And my spirit testified! [VERSE 2 – FEMALE LEAD, HAMMOND ORGAN ENTERS] I walked through places I'd never been, Yet something felt familiar within. A face, a moment, a passing sound, Like sacred footsteps on holy ground. They asked me how I came to know, A truth that nobody tried to show. I searched for words, but none would do, All I could say was, "My spirit knew." [CHORUS – FULL MASS CHOIR] My spirit knew! (MY SPIRIT KNEW!) What my eyes could not behold! My spirit knew! (MY SPIRIT KNEW!) What my lips had never told! Before the answer! (BEFORE THE ANSWER!) Before the sign! (BEFORE THE SIGN!) There was a knowing deep within, A witness that was mine! [INSTRUMENTAL – SLOW GOSPEL PIANO, HAMMOND B3, WARM BASS] [VERSE 3 – MALE BARITONE SOLO] Some things arrive without a warning, Like the first light of the morning. You cannot hold them in your hand, Yet somehow, still, you understand. I learned to listen in the silence, Beyond the noise, beyond the violence. And when the world said, "How can you?" I simply answered, "My spirit knew." [CHOIR – SWELLING HARMONIES] It knew! (IT KNEW!) It knew! (IT KNEW!) Before the words! (BEFORE THE WORDS!) Before the proof! (BEFORE THE PROOF!) My spirit knew the truth! [BRIDGE – FEMALE LEAD AND CHOIR] LEAD: Was it in the thunder? CHOIR: NO, NO, NO! LEAD: Was it in the lightning? CHOIR: NO, NO, NO! LEAD: Was it in the mighty wind? CHOIR: NO, NO, NO! LEAD: Then where did you hear Him? CHOIR: DEEP WITHIN! LEAD: Did somebody tell you? CHOIR: NO, NO, NO! LEAD: Did somebody show you? CHOIR: NO, NO, NO! LEAD: Then how did you know? CHOIR: MY SPIRIT KNEW! [KEY CHANGE – DRUMS AND FULL CHOIR ENTER WITH POWER] [VAMP – MASS CHOIR, SLOWLY BUILDING] I knew! (I KNEW!) I knew! (I KNEW!) Deep in my soul! (DEEP IN MY SOUL!) I already knew! (I ALREADY KNEW!) [LEAD – IMPROVISED GOSPEL TESTIMONY] I couldn't see it! But I knew! Couldn't explain it! But I knew! Didn't have the language! But I knew! Something down inside me... Already knew! [CHOIR – THUNDEROUS] MY SPIRIT! (MY SPIRIT!) MY SPIRIT! (MY SPIRIT!) KNEW! (KNEW!) KNEW! (KNEW!) [SECOND KEY CHANGE – SOPRANOS SOAR, BASS SECTION THUNDERS] [CHOIR – GRAND DECLARATION] Before the mountains! Before the seas! Before the wind blew through the trees! Before the questions! Before the signs! There was a knowing deep inside! MY SPIRIT KNEW! [BREAKDOWN – INSTRUMENTS DROP OUT, A CAPPELLA CHOIR] [SOFT FEMALE LEAD] I didn't need a thousand voices... To tell me what was true. When everything around me questioned... My spirit knew. [CHOIR – SOFT SUSTAINED HARMONY] My spirit knew... My spirit knew... [FINAL FEMALE SOLO – WHISPERED] And it still knows. [FINAL CHOIR – A CAPPELLA] Amen.
