Well the moon moved past Nebraska
And spilled laughter on them cold Dakota Hills
And angels danced on Jacob's stairs

Yeah, they danced on Jacob's stairs
There is this silence in the Badlands
And over Kansas the whole universe was stilled

By the whisper of a prayer
The whisper of a prayer


And the single hawk bursts into flight
And in the east the whole horizon is in flames
I feel thunder in the sky

I see the sky about to rain
And I hear the prairies calling out Your name


I can feel the earth tremble
Beneath the rumbling of the buffalo hooves
And the fury in the pheasant's wings

And there's fury in a pheasant's wings
It tells me the Lord is in His temple
And there is still a faith

That can make the mountains move
And a love that can make the heavens ring
And I've seen love make heaven ring


Where the sacred rivers meet
Beneath the shadow of the Keeper of the plains

I feel thunder in the sky
I see the sky about to rain
And I hear the prairies calling out Your name


From the place where morning gathers
You can look sometimes forever 'til you see

What time may never know
What time may never know
How the Lord takes by its corners this old world

And shakes us forward and shakes us free
To run wild with the hope
To run wild with the hope


The hope that this thirst will not last long
That it will soon drown in the song

Not sung in vain
And I feel thunder in the sky
I see the sky about to rain

And I hear the prairies calling out Your name