Former Ruins - How Lyrics

How did the pine in the front yard fall?
I heard it crushed the car, right down the middle of it
We could ask why it happened at all
Or wonder why it didn't when we were in it

All by small degrees, we see
Light through the trees
All by small degrees

How am I gonna reach you from behind this wall?
I know you're there because my hearing doesn't deceive
I have your mind and spirit, but I'm a body after all
So can you find a way to get yourself to me?

All by small degrees, we find
Some windows of time
All by small degrees
By all appearances, bread and wine
What's yours becomes mine
All by small degrees

How did this place get blood on the boards?
Every kind of creature's here, each one of us with teeth
So who among us can stop this parade of war
But the Lamb still standing with a steady bleed?

All by small degrees, we bow
We're learning how
All by small degrees
All by small degrees, all tongues
Will tune their lungs to the song that the angels sing
And we all as a bride will wear one wedding ring