Lyrics and Longings

In the starlit corner of a stable
Heaven finds a foothold on the earth.
In the stillness darkness is retreating:
this is no ordinary birth.

Down among the cattle and the bedding
Heaven’s highest finds a place to be.
Vulnerable and cradled by his mother,
the Prince of Peace becomes a refugee.

Chorus
And the people who walked in darkness
now come running down to Bethlehem.
In that starlit corner of a stable,
for all the world, Messiah comes.

While the shepherds sleep out on the hillside
and mystic travellers come near,
there’s a whisper somewhere in the distance
that God is driving out all fear.

Chorus
And the people who walked in darkness
now come running down to Bethlehem.
In that starlit corner of a stable,
for all the world, Messiah comes.

Son of Man and hope of generations,
mighty God, eternal Prince of Peace:
for the faithful, scanning hope’s horizon,
The angels chorus: ‘Love comes down’.

Chorus
And the people who walked in darkness
now come running down to Bethlehem.
In that starlit corner of a stable,
for all the world, Messiah comes.