Picture In The Scroll
[Intro]
Before the eye could see it
Before the heart could know
The masterpiece was sleeping
In a picture inside the scroll
[Verse ]
No branch appeared inside the seed
No wings beneath the skin
No finished face was visible
When the story first began
But every line remembered
What the surface could unfold
An unseen hand had drawn the form
In a picture inside the scroll
[Pre-Chorus]
The field supplied the water
The signal touched the gate
And everything that seemed asleep
Fell into the hands of fate
[Chorus]
The picture in the scroll…
Was complete before unfolding
It held a world nobody knew
The picture in the scroll…
It did not need creating
It was a world already whole
The picture is complete
Nothing's missing from the fold
Creation's not in bondage
It's you that's on parole
[Verse 2]
The letters could be counted
Every sequence could be read
But no one saw the living form
Still sleeping in the thread
Then silence became movement
And movement learned to grow
The word became a living thing
Like the picture in the scroll
[Pre-Chorus]
The record changed expression
Expression changed the field
And what had travelled secretly
Was finally revealed
[Chorus]
The picture in the scroll…
Was complete before unfolding
It held a world nobody knew
The picture in the scroll…
It did not need creating
It was a world already whole
The picture is complete
Nothing's missing from the fold
Creation's not in bondage
It's you that's on parole
[Bridge]
How could the seed imagine
The forest overhead?
How could the child remember
The road that lay ahead?
It never had to understand
The hand that formed the whole
It only had to answer
When the key unlocked the scroll
[Breakdown]
The signal's not a blueprint
It did not write one line
It opened what was ready
At the intersection of time
The field became the canvas
The hidden colours flowed
And life became the evidence
Of the picture in the scroll
[Final Chorus]
The picture in the scroll…
Was alive before unfolding
It held the shape that we became
The picture in the scroll...
[Outro]