Once More With Feeling Lyrics

I was trying to disappear

Become like the wind, the rain, the sky

I was trying on every fear

Searching for answers, lost in the night

Let there be hopeless faith

Let there be raging grace

Let there be diamonds from dust

Let there be love

Let there be cold embrace

Let there be formless shapes

Let there be the fondest hate

Let there be love

The life of Man is a long march through the night

Surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain

Towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long

Be it ours to shed sunshine on their path, to lighten their sorrows by the balm of sympathy

To give them the pure joy of a never-tiring affection

To strengthen failing courage, to instill faith in hours of despair

Let us not weigh in grudging scales their merits and demerits

But let us think only of their need — of the sorrows, the difficulties, perhaps, the blindnesses

That make the misery of their lives

Let there be hopeless faith

Let there be raging grace

Let there be diamonds from dust

Let there be love

Let there be cold embrace

Let there be formless shapes

Let there be the fondest hate

Let there be love

Let there be love

Let there be love