Deliver Us From The Elements Lyrics - Mummer - Xtc

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 

[Chorus]