Questions

Who held the clay and then breathed us into being?
What is the pearl that has been hidden in the heart?
When did the world fall and fill us up with longing?
Where we are when it all has come apart.

How is it true when you’re searching for the answers
That when you look there is nothing there to see?
Lean close and listen, there’s nothing there to hear
But wind in the seagrass and whispers in the trees.

I woke up from this dreaming
Still I found no one to answer
When I asked

What has made us as radiant as stardust?
Where can we go as we’re orbiting the sun?
When can it be that we’ll all be free from sorrow?
How to return to where nothing’s left undone?

Set to Pat Metheny’s “Question & Answer”
Randy Phillips lyrics/Blue Violet Music©2005