4th century BC
Plato
- Idealism — forms over particulars
- The Republic ethic: “God is not the author of evil”
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
The light I'm seeing left its star
A thousand years before I came to be
It traveled through the empty cold
To land tonight inside the eye of me
I only get one frame at once
A single tick, a single mile
But He is standing outside time
And sees the whole of it, and smiles
[Chorus]
It's a long, long light year
And I walk it one day deep
But He's already at the ending
Of the path I'm trying to keep
I am crawling through the minutes
He is holding all the reel
The future isn't scary
When the Filmmaker is real
[Verse 2]
So I don't have to see the end
To trust the hand that drew the start
He read the final chapter
Then He wrote it on my heart
The waiting feels like wandering
But the wandering is scored
Every frame already finished
In the patience of the Lord
[Chorus]
It's a long, long light year
And I walk it one day deep
But He's already at the ending
Of the path I'm trying to keep
I am crawling through the minutes
He is holding all the reel
The future isn't scary
When the Filmmaker is real
[Bridge]
Way out there the light still flies
Way back here it fills my eyes
And the God of both the distance
Is the God who dries my eyes
[Outro]
It's a long, long light year
But I'm not walking it alone
He's already at the ending
He's already, already home
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