Story Behind The Song
It had always puzzled and amused me that materialistic scientism is full of invisible forces like gravity. Have you ever seen gravity? In fact, you have never seen light, only its effects. Otherwise the night sky, for example, would be full of rays. One day I put this point into a short lyric.
Song Description
A little song about our perception of reality.
| Song Length |
5:22 |
Genre |
Folk - Contemporary, Folk - Alternative |
| Tempo |
Medium Slow (91 - 110) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Relaxed, Composed |
Subject |
Spirituality, Light |
| Similar Artists |
Arlo Guthrie, The Moody Blues |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
THE RADIANCE
That radiant abounding power,
The light that lights the dawning hour,
Wakes all the world to vision's might,
Is in itself unseen to sight.
Though drops in cloud or dusty air
May sketch the ways of sunrays there
On shining, eastern sky, what's seen
is made of myriad small gleams.
Even the aura of the dawn
And the sun's own blazing form
Are hues from atmospheric force
Of earth and sun, not light's own course.
We do not see the rays in space
Expanding widely from sun face.
Nor find the dark of night's deep sky
As full of light from each star's eye.
So when I hear it claimed that all
That's real is found perceived in sense,
I think how light that lights it all
Lives as an unseen radiance.
I think how light that lights it all
Lives as an unseen radiance.
An unseen radiance.