when this fleeting limelight fades 

and we're alone again 

what name will your heart speak? 

what is true? what is real? 

not what you feel 

what you know eternally 


ten years running blind and aimlessly 

warming by the fires of bridges burning 

ten thousand peering eyes that can only see 

the show, the smile, the face i allow 

how many more break beneath the surface? 

young and bold, but blind and led by blind 

His person missed beyond His name 

was this the hope when we began? 

a tragic generation 

of faithless children and forgotten love? 

i know i'd hoped for some other, higher purpose 


what is true and what is real 

past what you might feel 

what do you know eternally? 

and when this fleeting limelight fades 

and we're alone again 

what name will your heart speak? 


and if you see me on the way down 

would you smile and send me on my way? 

and if you see me headed down 

is there something more between 

you and i? 


something higher 

something higher 

i want to be real again 

i want You, Father, be real in me 

and if i see you on the way down 

i'll lift your name up up into His care 

and if i see you headed down 

i'll do what i can to lift you up again 


burn us clean, refine this world away 

make Yourself real to me 

make us to live as You would