The Church - One Day lyrics

Tell me, is everything unplanned?
It's all so unexpected that
I just can't understand
We run so hard and always end
Up in the same place
"Glad that went so smoothly" well
That never is the case

One day the darkest cloud is bright
Who will shake away the
Shadows of eternal night
It's just the storm before the calm
Like the life held in your palm - it's clay
One day

And you stand there, with ashes blowing past
Dipping into gilt-edged love that will
Be made at last
And the gold you spend and the hastening end
That you throw into the sea
Coming back a hundredfold
There's no guarantee

We'll walk and be like giants
We'll all be honest men
I go back to my blindness so
That I may see again
A woman standing on a hill
Is gazing out to sea
Dreaming of a new age waiting there for me
I call her from a distance and
She smiles into the sun
And men and gods begin their dance
For their time has begun
And holy wars extended and
Battlefields of pain
Washed away, forgotten in the perfect rain
Princes, kings and humble things
Are well-worn and content
Messengers come everywhere
Envoys have been sent
"Na na na na, na na na na na
A palm tree nodded at me last night he said
'Hey you look so pale' "