Carol of the Magi

We rode all night through fields of darkness
Our guiding light, the eastern stars
We came to Bethlehem, we all were weary
We'd traveled far that night, we'd traveled far
We'd traveled far

We heard that here we'd find Messiah
Foretold by seers from days of old
We looked for palaces, we found a stable
Could it be here, so bare and cold?
So bare and cold?

We entered in and there we saw him
It seemed we'd known him from long before
A child like any child, yet somehow different
The face of every child, in him we saw
The face of every child, we saw

We brought him gifts and now we offer them
We knelt down low in silent prayer
With eyes that seem to know both joy and sadness
The child looked down as we knelt there
The child looked down as we knelt there

So long ago, yet, I remember
That child who lay at Mary's knee
How strange that every child seemed so much like him
He is the face I seem to see
He is the face I seem to see