Dancer To The Drum Lyrics - Beth Nielsen Chapman

Fast asleep in the dawn of ages 

The soul of every child 

Has waited to be born a stranger 

Underneath the drum of his mother's heart 

Lying deep in a dream of darkness 

Where fear has never gone 

Each spark of a life is started 

Blind and pure to the world we come 

Blind and pure to the world we come 

Each of us a dancer to the drum 

Each of us a dancer to the drum 

Blind and pure we come 

One is born into a life of hunger 

One will be a king or a rich man's son 

One will kill out of greed or anger 

One will give his life for another one 

There are smiles in the lies of innocence 

There are blooms in the walls of stone 

And we will see ourselves 

In the eyes of everyone we have ever known 

Everyone we have ever known 

And the heart, the heart will ever be a witness 

And precious time, no treasure is worth 

And the child, the child will carry our existence 

Through the days that we have on earth 

Each of us a dancer to the drum 

Each of us a dancer to the drum 

Blind and pure we come 

Fast asleep in the dawn of ages 

The soul of every child 

Has waited to be born a stranger 

Underneath the drum of his mother's heart