Helping Hand - Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer

With a hammer and nails and a fear of failure we

Are building a shed

Between here and heaven between the wait and the

Wedding for as long as we both shall be dead

To the world beyond the boys and the girls trying

To keep us calm

We can practice our lines 'til we’re deaf and blind

To ourselves to each other where it’s

Fall not winter spring not summer cool not cold

And it’s warm not hot have we all forgotten that

We’re getting old

With an arrow and bow and some seeds left to sow

We are staking our claim

On ground so fertile we forget who we’ve hurt along

The way and reach out for a strange hand

To hold someone strong but not bold enough to

Tear down the wall

Cause we ain’t lost enough to find the stars ain’t

Crossed why align them why fall hard

Not soft into

Fall not winter spring not summer cool not cold

Where it’s warm not hot have we all forgotten that

We’re getting old