Carolyn Arends

Do We Dare

Carolyn Arends


The prayers that we pray in foxholes and funerals 
The songs that we sing in delivery rooms 
The questions we ask when nobody's listening 
But the man in the moon 
The way our hearts beat - faced with a sunrise 
Like maybe they know something we don't 
But it's all in code and we can't decode it 
Or maybe we won't 

Chorus: 
Do we dare pay attention, dare even mention 
The mystery we find ourselves caught in 
And do we dare to remember 
All that we have forgotten 

Each breath that we take - we take for granted 
So if there are clues we remain unaware 
All the days of our lives burn down like matches 
Vanish into thin air 
But there are dreams that we dream when we least expect them 
And memories that come like unbidden tears 
All the things we believed when we were still children 
It's been so many years 

Repeat chorus 

We are battered and torn from the day we are born 
In a world that has blinded and bound us 
Is it any surprise we don't open our eyes 
To the truth that's disguised all around us 

Like the secrets we keep we don't know we're keeping 
From before there was time, before there were lies 
Can we find you again this far from the garden? 
Do we dare even try? 

Repeat chorus