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?      Oh Lord deliver us from the elements   We at your mercy and your reverence   Oh Lord deliver us from the elements   We've no defence 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      Oh Lord deliver us from the elements   We at your mercy and your reverence   Oh Lord deliver us from the elements   We've no defence we are impotent      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      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      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   Oh Lord deliver us from the elements