When it's dark outside you've got to carry a light Or you'll stumble and fall like tumbling dice It takes a steady step, it takes God-given sight Just to tell what is the truth, what is wrong, what is right In this world Thunder throbs in the darkness Out in the eye of the storm The friends of God suffer no permanent harm When the night sky glows with the red fires of war And the threat of annihilation pounds at your door You don't have to pretend that you got nerves of steel To believe that the love of the Lord is actual and real In this world Thunder throbs in the darkness Out in the eye of the storm The friends of God suffer no permanent harm When the daybreak comes with a trumpet blast And the true fruit of faith is tasted at long-last When the darkness dies and death is undone And teardrops are dried in the noonday sun In this world Thunder throbs in the darkness Out in the eye of the storm The friends of God suffer no permanent harm