"Standing In The Breach" lyrics - JACKSON BROWNE

Although the Earth may tremble and our foundation crack,
We are all assembled and we will build them back.
And let's just say the lives remain and held within our reach.
Try to put our world together, standing in the breach.
So many live in poverty while others live like Kings.
Though some may find peace and acceptance in all that living brings.

I will never understand, how ever they've prepared,
How one life is struck down and another life is spared.
Though the earth may tremble and cast our work aside,
Though their efforts resembled the fluctuations of time.
We rise and fall with the trust and belief and love redeems our seed.
And our backs and the hearts together, standing in the breech.

You don't know why,
It's such a far cry, in what this world could be.
You don't know why,
But you still try for the world you wish to see.
You don't know how, it will happen now after all that's come undone.
But you know the change that the world needs now, is there in everyone.

The unpaid debts of history, the open wounds of time,
The laws of Human Nature always tugging from behind.
I want to think that the earth can heal and the people might still learn,
How to meet this world's true challenges and if it costs their own can turn.

Though the earth may tremble and the ocean's pitching arrives,
We are all assembled.And we will lift our eyes
To the tasks that we know lie before us and the power of our press besieged,
And lift our souls into the Heavens, standing in the breach.

You don't know why,
It's such a far cry from what this world can be.
You don't know why,
But you still try for the world you wish to see.
You don't know how,
It will happen now.
For all that's come undone.
But you know the changes the world needs now is there in everyone.