Locked inside our skin,
We live so far apart.
What I wouldn't give to hear
The beating of your heart!
Trapped inside this flesh,
As if inside some shell,
Isolation is a thing
We know so very well.

Here we stand,
Two sep'rate people who are longing to be one,
Trying to deal
With the ache that we feel
Because we hate to be alone.
God of uniting,
We stand in Your presence
And this is what we pray:
Close the gap with ev'ry passing day.

Eyery time we talk
The words go 'round and 'round.
Don't you see how hard we try
To break the barriers down?
Ev'ry time we touch,
We say what words can't say;
How long will it be until
We lift the walls away?

Here we stand,
Two sep'rate people who are longing to be one,
Trying to deal
With the ache that we feel
Because we hate to be alone.
God of uniting,
We stand in Your presence
And this is what we pray:
Close the gap with ev'ry passing day.

Soon the day will come
We'll known and we'll be known.
All things will be new again
And all the world be one.
But this is not that day,
And tomorrow is not here:
Can we take the risk of love
And join to face our fear?

Here we stand,
Two sep'rate people who are longing to be one,
Trying to deal
With the ache that we feel
Because we hate to be alone.
God of uniting,
We stand in Your presence
And this is what we pray:
Close the gap with ev'ry passing day.