(Special version for Oprah)
You are walking down a crowded street
through various shades of people
in the summer's harshest heat
a story in your eye
well speak
until your mind's at ease
25 years have come and gone
and that story's still unfolding
suitcase packed you're moving on
with the memories you're holding
will you be home?
when you arrive?
after twenty five years
you are driving down a country road
beside a shady river
the sky turns dark as stone
the trees begin to shiver
the grace of God is nigh
If you look into your future life
Decades from this question
Do you imagine a familar light
burning in the distance
the love that never dies
Twenty-five years have come and gone
and that story's still unfolding
Suitcase packed you're moving on
with the memories you're holding
and you'll be home
when you arrive
twenty five