[Intro] I was twenty when the spies came home. My beard is white now, white as bone. The sand has had my father and my friends. It knows my name. It knows how this ends. [Verse 1] Twelve men went up, one from every tribe. For forty days they walked the land. They came back down the Eshcol road with a cluster too heavy for one man's hand. Two of them bore it slung on a pole, figs and pomegranates in a sack, and we tore at the grapes like children do before we heard what else they'd brought back. [Pre-Chorus] Walled cities, they said, and giants in the hills, the sons of Anak, tall as trees. It's a land that swallows the ones who live there, and I felt the strength go out of my knees. [Chorus] We were as grasshoppers in the shadow of their walls, and a man who sees himself that small will never climb at all. Forty days to see the land, forty years to watch us fall. [Verse 2] We wept all night till the lamps went out. We said, we should have died back there. Pick us a captain and take us to Egypt, and I meant it, and I didn't care. Then Joshua and Caleb tore their coats and cried, the land is good, don't be afraid, God is with us, they'll be bread in our mouths, and I had a stone in my hand, and I weighed it. [Chorus] We were as grasshoppers in the shadow of their walls, and a man who sees himself that small will never climb at all. Forty days to see the land, forty years to watch us fall. [Bridge] Then the glory blazed at the door of the tent and the stones dropped out of every hand. A year for every day, He said, and your little ones will have the land. The ten who talked fell dead of plague. Next morning we strapped on our swords and climbed the hill without the ark, and without a word from the LORD. [Final Chorus] We were as grasshoppers in the shadow of their walls, and a man who sees himself that small will never climb at all. Forty days to see the land, forty years to watch us fall. My children will taste those grapes. I won't.