[Intro] The ground can open. The fire can fall. I saw them both. I heard them call. [Verse 1] Korah stood up with two hundred and fifty, famous men with their censers bright. You take too much, they said to Moses. We're all of us holy in His sight. Dathan and Abiram wouldn't come. They stood in their doors with their children near. And Moses said, if they die like men die, then God never sent me here. [Pre-Chorus] Then the ground split open under their tents and they went down living, goods and all. We ran from the sound of it shutting. Then fire. Two hundred and fifty fall. [Chorus] Between the dead and the living he stood with the coals in his hand. The sweet smoke rose, the dying stopped, and it stopped where he chose to stand. Behind him the silence, in front of him breath, one old man between life and death. [Verse 2] By morning the camp was at it again. You two have killed God's people, they cried. The cloud came down on the tent of meeting and the sickness started running wide. I heard Moses shout, Aaron, take the censer, fire from the altar, incense, go. And I've never seen an old man run like that, through the tents with the smoke trailing low. [Chorus] Between the dead and the living he stood with the coals in his hand. The sweet smoke rose, the dying stopped, and it stopped where he chose to stand. Behind him the silence, in front of him breath, one old man between life and death. [Bridge] Twelve dry rods in the dark that night, each one carved with a father's name. Eleven came out as only wood. Aaron's didn't come out the same. Buds on it. Blossoms. Almonds ripe. Dead wood that flowered overnight. [Final Chorus] Between the dead and the living he stood with the coals in his hand. The sweet smoke rose, the dying stopped, and it stopped where he chose to stand. Behind him the silence, in front of him breath, one old man between life and death. Fourteen thousand seven hundred behind him. He stopped two doors from mine.