Perish The Thought

Send men into the promised land to see what lay in store
Send one from every Jewish tribe to find what we came for
We’ll make a plan to conquer all and take the land by force
As soon as we discover what’s ahead we’ll set our course
The spies went forth into the land; all twelve of them were there
They saw the enemies of God; the giants living there
Ten of the spies, they got freaked out; thought little of themselves
But Joshua and Caleb saw the land of Israel

Perish the thought of doubt
Or vanish in disbelief
Faith is a choice you make
Choose what you will receive

They came to the assembly to declare what they had seen
Complaining unto Moses that it was an ugly scene
They said “We’ll never do it; they’re too many and too strong
If we go up against them we will not last very long!”
But Joshua and Caleb said, “The land is very good
The food they’ve got is excellent; there’s heaps of burning wood
There’s milk and there is honey; it’s the best we’ve ever seen
And with our God beside us we can take it all, you’ll see!”

Perish the thought of doubt
Or vanish in disbelief
Faith is a choice you make
Choose what you will receive

The people were complaining and they started to rebel
They murmured and they muttered and they gave poor Moses hell
The Lord was very angry at the way they carried on
And so their generation died and rotted in the sun
The children had maintained their faith and waited patiently
For forty years the Lord had made them travel aimlessly
But when the doubters all had perished, each and every one
The faithful men rose up to fight and take the land they’d won

Perish the thought of doubt
Or vanish in disbelief
Faith is a choice you make
Choose what you will receive


(Steadman, Salmela, Skipworth, Gregory)