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 no nerves of steel to believe that the love of the lord is actual and real in this world thunder throbs in the darkness mm mmm 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 but in this world oh in this world thunder throbs in the darkness uh huh out in the eye of the storm the friends of god suffer no permanent harm oh no out in the eye of the storm the friends of god suffer no permanent harm