"As we come together today"

The Thunder of the Butterflies 1 When I hear thunder I wonder More like dream than thought If maybe I could understand An answer spoken in thunder To the questioning lightning flash Like something I forgot 2 Here between the flame and the ash Reality feels like a kiss When thunder answers me as what Here between over and under To remember that I forgot And then I feel and remember this 3 Alone out here along the way From never to ever No understudy for my part With no one left for whom to say No one but me to see the play Its curtain now or never 4 No one but me inside my head And yet I say it anyway Except to everyone instead Outside my head into your heart And come what may as we become A poem for the long way home 5 And coming apart at the seams Or so it seems to be As we come together today I can see surprise in your eyes As we shed our skins for our dreams To be reality 6 To be reborn as butterflies Though caterpillars yesterday And caterpillars tomorrow Cycling to our joy through sorrow But we will get there if we dare And if we care to and we do 7 Going through the cycle again Ready to shed our skins Undergoing then going free Cycling through our ups and downs when Now not later and now not then Now is when it all begins 8 In purest possibility Since N and O and W Become the somehow of to be And W and O and N Have those who knew this who have been And having won now one will be 9 Some of the total of how but Possible so far Beyond the sum including what Cannot be seen we mean to mean As total of the sum of us The all of what we are 10 The total of the sum of how Caterpillars can dream and fly Butterflies to become of us Who know no limit to our sky Freedom becomes us rise or fall In the total somehow of now 11 And so we are and so we rise The answer after all The gift made better by surprise When we shed our skins of fear And wonder is answered in thunder The thunder of the butterflies When now connects with here +Steven Curtis Lance Copyright MMX