We can plant a seed
  And watch it grow
  Food enough to fill a table
  Running water down an overflow
  Eat as much as we are able
  But would the fruit turn ripe
  If the rains had never been?
    [Chorus:] Oh Lord deliver us from the elements
  We at your mercy and your reverence
  Oh Lord deliver us from the elements
  We've no defense we are impotent
    You can travel far to distant lands
  Some so hot no man could bear
  You can conquer peaks with winds of sand
  Where Mother Nature didn't care
  Would not our world turn cold
  If the sun refused to shine
    [Chorus]
    And when the world grows old
  And we know more than our brains can hold
  Nature will be law
  Well we're as helpless now as we've ever been before
  Would not our world turn cold
  If the sun refused to shine
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