Let There Be (From "Children of Eden")

In the beginning

In the beginning

God created the heaven and earth

Without form, void, darkness

And God said

Let there be

Light

I woke up from a curious dream

I dreamed a perfect garden

And there were whirling shapes

And swirling sounds

And I wasn’t lonely any more

I woke up from a wonderful dream

Woke full of energy and hunger

And now this hunger will be stilled

And my emptiness be filled

As I set about to build

My dream

Let there be, let there be morning

Let there be evening, day

Let there be

Let there be

Let there be

Waters, weathers, winters, wonders

Let there be

Land, and

Speeding comets with hearts of ice

Spinning planets with rings of fire

Cosmic sparks

And quasars and quarks

And suns convulsing

Pulsars pulsing

Let there be, let there be

Let there be, let there be

Whales, snails, sharks, larks,

Apple trees with dappled barks

And granite mountains and flaxen plains

Giant lizards with tiny brains

Fluorescent fish and crescent worms

And a billion bugs and a trillion germs

 

Let there be, let there be

Let there be, let there be

Let there be, let there be

Let there be, let there be

It’s not enough

It’s still not enough

There was something more in my dream

Something could see it and share it

What was it, though? I only know

I wasn’t lonely any more

There is one more thing to build

One more void that must be filled

I’ll make creatures I’ll call

Children

Shaped like me

Let there be, let there be

Someone, somewhere, small and skinny

Clawless, furless, finless, fangless

Let there be

Man, who can

Wander over my flaxen plains

Wonder up at my granite mountains

Count the stars

And wish for wings

And hold a tool

And think of things

And search for answers he cannot see

And dream of glory

And worship me

Let there be, let there be

Let there be

Let there be, let there be

Let there be

And the Father breathed into his children the breath of life

And the children became living souls

And the Father gave to His children a garden, and called the garden Eden

Let

There

Be

Let there be