when this fleeting limelight fades 
and we're alone again 
what name will your heart speak? 
what is true? what is real? 
not what you feel 
what you know eternally 

ten years running blind and aimlessly 
warming by the fires of bridges burning 
ten thousand peering eyes that can only see 
the show, the smile, the face i allow 
how many more break beneath the surface? 
young and bold, but blind and led by blind 
His person missed beyond His name 
was this the hope when we began? 
a tragic generation 
of faithless children and forgotten love? 
i know i'd hoped for some other, higher purpose 

what is true and what is real 
past what you might feel 
what do you know eternally? 
and when this fleeting limelight fades 
and we're alone again 
what name will your heart speak? 

and if you see me on the way down 
would you smile and send me on my way? 
and if you see me headed down 
is there something more between 
you and i? 

something higher 
something higher 
i want to be real again 
i want You, Father, be real in me 
and if i see you on the way down 
i'll lift your name up up into His care 
and if i see you headed down 
i'll do what i can to lift you up again 

burn us clean, refine this world away 
make Yourself real to me 
make us to live as You would