[Intro] Cloud on the canvas, fire on the tent. Nobody knows when we're leaving again. [Verse 1] My father hauls boards for the house of the LORD, a son of Merari with an ox and a cart. There's a fire at night standing over the tent, and I lie there and watch it and count in the dark. My mother keeps bread by the door in a sack, and she never unpacks what she might have to pack. [Pre-Chorus] Then a morning comes and the cloud goes up, slow off the roof like a lifted veil. Two silver trumpets sound the alarm, and Judah's banner is out on the trail. [Chorus] When the cloud lifted, the whole camp shifted, the silver was calling and the dust began to fly. When the cloud settled, we drove in the tent pegs, two days or a year, and we never asked why. Cloud in the daytime, fire in the night sky. [Verse 2] We pull every peg and we lower the walls, we load up the boards while the oxen bawl. We go on ahead and we raise it again so the house is standing when the holy things come in. And the ark goes out three days in front to find us a place where the tired can lie, and Moses asks a Midianite, stay with us, friend, you know this desert, you can be our eyes. [Chorus] When the cloud lifted, the whole camp shifted, the silver was calling and the dust began to fly. When the cloud settled, we drove in the tent pegs, two days or a year, and we never asked why. Cloud in the daytime, fire in the night sky. [Bridge] Every time the ark went up the old man raised his hands and cried, Stand up, LORD, and go before us, let the ones who hate You run and hide. Every time the ark came down he said it low, like a lullaby, Come back, LORD, to all these thousands, come and sit with us tonight. [Final Chorus] When the cloud lifted, the whole camp shifted, the silver was calling and the dust began to fly. When the cloud settled, we drove in the tent pegs, two days or a year, and we never asked why. Cloud in the daytime, fire in the night sky. We go when He goes, and we stay when He stays.