Let There Be

[STORYTELLERS]
In the beginning
In the beginning
God created the Heaven and Earth
Without form - void - darkness
And God said:

[FATHER]
Let there be

[STORYTELLERS]
Light!

[FATHER]
I woke up from a curious dream
I dreamed a perfect garden
And there were whirling shapes
And swirling sounds
And I wasn't lonely anymore

I woke up from a wonderful dream
Woke, full of energy and hunger
And now this hunger will be stilled
And my emptiness be filled
As I set about to build
My dream

Let there be
Let there be
Morning
Let there be
Evening, day
Let there be

Let there be

[STORYTELLERS]
Let there be

[FATHER]
Waters, weathers
Winters, wonders

[FATHER, STORYTELLERS]
Let there be
Land and

[FATHER]
Speeding comets with hearts of ice
Spinning planets with rings of fire

[FATHER, STORYTELLERS]
Cosmic sparks
And quasars and quarks
And suns convulsing
Pulsars pulsing

[STORYTELLERS]
Let there be

[FATHER]
Let there be

[FATHER, STORYTELLERS]
Let there be

[FATHER]
Whales
Snails
Sharks
Larks
Apples trees with dappled barks
And granite mountains and flaxen plains
Giant lizards with tiny brains
Fluorescent fish and crescent worms
And a million bugs and trillion germs

[FATHER, spoken]
It's not enough! It's still not enough

[FATHER]
There was something more in my dream
Something could see it and share it
What was it, though
I only know
I wasn't lonely anymore

There is one more thing to build
One more void that must be filled
I'll make creatures I'll call children
Shaped like me

[FATHER, STORYTELLERS]
Let there be, let there be

[FATHER]
Something, someone
Small and skinny
Clawless, furless
Finless, fangless

[FATHER, STORYTELLERS]
Let there be
Man who can

[FATHER]
Wander over my flaxen plains
Wonder up at my granite mountains
Count the stars and wish for wings
And hold a tool and think of things
And search for answers he cannot see

[STORYTELLERS]
And dream of glory

[FATHER]
And worship me

[FATHER, STORYTELLERS]
Let there be