There's a crack where the light gets in

Ring the bells

That still can ring

There's a crack

Where light begins

He walked slow

Through shadowed years

Suit and silence

Full of prayers

He sang for

The crooked man

For every sinner

Who tried again

There's a crack where the light gets in

A wound that sings beneath the skin

We are so lightly here, my friend

In love we're made, in love we end

Poet's fire

In gentle ash

Burning words

Through time and glass

He chose grace

Over gold and fame

Laughed at loss

And blessed the pain

He said act the way

You wish to be

And soon the act

Becomes the seed

There's a crack where the light gets in

Forget your perfect offering

We ring the bells that still can ring

And let the broken choir sing

"I've always loved

The voluptuous ruin," he said

A smile like dust

And wine-red thread

"You lose your grip

Then slip within

Into the masterpiece again"

There's a crack where the light gets in

Each flaw a door, each scar a hymn

We're waiting here to be human still

And love remains the holiest will

Ring the bells

That still can ring

He's gone

But the songs still sing

We disappear

But not the hymn

There's a crack

And the light gets in