[Verse 1] You fixed your eyes on us Your flesh and blood A sculpture of water And unsettled dust When there was bad blood in us We learned our lessons Genesis to the last generation So we wrestle with it all The concept of grace And the faithful concrete As it breaks our fall Our questions are all the same Identical words; how they feel brand new Against different time frames Identical words against different time frames [Chorus] We know it all by heart The whole is greater Than the sum of its parts We've heard it all before In beauty there echoes a speck of our souls In beauty there echoes a speck of our souls [Verse 2] Like firewood burning bright In the dead of winter By only a flicker We cling to this life
So we huddle over maps Is it faith or prediction Will or tradition Until we collapse? We argue our bearings Until we collapse We study our story arcs Inherently good Or were we broken right from the start? Or hesitant fingerprints Trace every mountain Lace every valley Until we're convinced We know it all by heart Every blade of gra** bears our mark In the name of being brave Though it's just another word for being afraid [Chorus] We know it all by heart The whole is so much greater Than the sum of these parts We've heard the truth before For in beauty there echoes a speck of our souls In beauty there echoes a speck of our souls In beauty there echoes a speck of our souls