4th century BC
Plato
- Idealism — forms over particulars
- The Republic ethic: “God is not the author of evil”
Lyrics
[Intro]
Thunder... Thunder... Thunder... Thunder...
(guitar climbs, tension stacks, band crashes in)
[Verse 1]
It rolled in low off the eastern dark,
A sound the grave could not sleep through.
The mountains bowed and the sea pulled back,
The sky tore open clean in two.
He spoke one word and the pillars shook,
The dead stood up in the cold hard ground.
No second road, no second look,
When the glory came thundering down.
[Pre-chorus]
Same throne, same fire, same light -
One voice over the years -
The covered stand upright,
The naked disappear.
[Chorus]
THUNDER! (Thunder!)
Off the mercy seat -
THUNDER! (Thunder!)
He's coming for His sheep -
The God of glory thundereth, the trumpet splits the sky!
Hidden in the Lamb or standing in His eye -
THUNDERSTRUCK!
[Verse 2]
The kings of the earth ran for the stone,
Begged the rocks to hide their shame.
The Lamb came riding on a throne,
And every tongue confessed the name.
No camp to join, no card to show,
No gate but blood would let them through.
The same wide light the angels know
Burned the false and crowned the true.
[Pre-chorus]
Same throne, same fire, same light -
One voice over the years -
The covered stand upright,
The naked disappear.
[Chorus]
THUNDER! (Thunder!)
Off the mercy seat -
THUNDER! (Thunder!)
He's coming for His sheep -
The God of glory thundereth, the trumpet splits the sky!
Hidden in the Lamb or standing in His eye -
THUNDERSTRUCK!
[Final Chorus]
THUNDER! (Thunder!)
Off the mercy seat -
THUNDER! (Thunder!)
He's coming for His sheep -
The God of glory thundereth, the trumpet splits the sky!
Hidden in the Lamb or standing in His eye -
THUNDERSTRUCK!
(Thunder! Thunder!)
Struck down, struck through -
THUNDER! THUNDER!
The old world's coming due -
The voice that made the morning is the voice that ends the night!
Covered in His blood or naked in the light -
THUNDERSTRUCK!
[Outro]
Thunder... Thunder... Thunder...
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