[Verse] In the beginning was the Word, before the first of days, before a single note was heard or morning learned to blaze. All things were made by Him alone; not one thing stands apart. The Word who framed the starry throne held time within His heart. [Chorus] Before the world had morning light, before the stars were sown, the Lamb was slain in God's own sight, the ending fully known. [Verse] The cross was never second thought, nor mercy's late reply; the Lamb was slain, the ransom bought, before the earth or sky. No sin surprised the throne of grace, no fall took Him by shock; the Shepherd knew the wandering race before He formed the flock. [Chorus] Before the world had morning light, before the stars were sown, the Lamb was slain in God's own sight, the ending fully known. [Verse] Before a page was ever penned, before a scribe was born, the book was finished, end to end, as sure as coming morn. The men He moved were not their own, not knowing all the whole; each wrote a part, and God alone held every page and scroll. [Bridge] The Word came down and made it known, the story He had penned; He walked the road, He bore alone our guilt, and made amends. He rolled away the sealing stone, and rose, and called us friend. [Verse] He opened up His mouth and told the secrets long concealed, of seed and soil, of sheep in fold, of treasure in a field. These meanings were not made that day; they waited from the first, kept secret till He walked our way and spoke, and quenched our thirst. [Chorus] Before the world had morning light, before the stars were sown, the Lamb was slain in God's own sight, the ending fully known. [Verse] The lamb, the bread, the vine, the door, the shepherd's tender care, were pictures hung up long before a single soul was there. The lives men lived, the roads they trod, were parables He gave; true stories, written out by God, yet real as wind and wave. [Chorus] Before the world had morning light, before the stars were sown, the Lamb was slain in God's own sight, the ending fully known.