Rise and fall, tide and flame
Every age and every name
Dust to dust, and yet we stand
Held inside a steady hand
Time keeps turning, tick-tick-tock
Kingdoms crumble, clocks don't stop
But through the frost and through the flood
There's One who writes it in His blood
While the earth remains
Cold and heat
Summer or winter
Sow and reap
Day and night
Won't break or bend
His mercy has no ticking end
While the earth remains
Storm and flame
Time may change, but He's the same
Tick-tick-tock, the ages sing
All of it turns beneath His wings
Empires rise like morning mist
Names engraved in iron fist
But thrones dissolve like drifting sand
When seasons move at His command
Born in joy and buried low
We laugh, we weep, we weep, we sow
A time to speak, a time to be still
A time that bends beneath His will
Time keeps counting, tick-tick-tock
Hearts keep beating, rock to rock
But through the drought and through the rain
His covenant remains the same
While the earth remains
Cold and heat
Summer or winter
Sow and reap
Day and night
Won't break or bend
His mercy has no ticking end
While the earth remains
Rise and fall
He sustains the bread of all
Tick-tick-tock, creation sings
All of it turns beneath His wings
Tick in the womb, tick in the grave
Tick in the tyrant's shallow parade
Tick in the harvest, tick in the war
Tick in the famine at your door
But time's a servant, not a king
It bows before the ancient ring
The One who spoke and it was so
Still holds the rhythm high and low
While the earth remains
Cold and heat
Summer or winter
Sow and reap
Day and night
Won't break or bend
His mercy has no ticking end
While the earth remains
Seed and bread
Life and death
And tears we've shed
Tick-tick-tock, but hope won't rot
His faithful hand forgets us not
While the earth remains
Clocks may chime
But He stands outside of time
Tick-tick-tock, let nations swing
Our days are kept by the deathless King
5:17
