WHILE WE’RE STILL HERE Verse 1 Somebody’s praying for the morning Somebody’s afraid to close their eyes Somebody’s holding on to nothing Somebody’s holding up the sky There’s a mother at a window There’s a child who wants to know If we all belong to somewhere Why’s it so hard to call it home? Pre-Chorus We’ve been shouting through the distance Trying hard to prove we’re right But the heart beneath the armor Sounds like mine tonight Chorus While we’re still here While the stars still shine Put your hand upon your heartbeat Can you feel the same in mine? We don’t have to be the same We don’t have to disappear We can learn to love each other While we’re still here Oh, while we’re still here Verse 2 You can call the light by one name I can call it something new We can stand beneath the same rain Let it fall on me and you There’s a table with an empty chair There’s a road we haven’t tried There’s a world beyond the borders That we carry deep inside Pre-Chorus Maybe peace is not a promise That somebody else will keep Maybe it’s the smallest kindness That we plant before we sleep Chorus While we’re still here While the stars still shine Put your hand upon your heartbeat Can you feel the same in mine? We don’t have to be the same We don’t have to disappear We can learn to love each other While we’re still here Bridge — quiet, almost spoken To the ones who have been silenced To the ones who’ve lost their way To the ones who feel forgotten You belong here anyway No one has to lose their language No one has to lose their song There’s enough room in the music For us all to sing along Final Chorus — voices gathering While we’re still here While the stars still shine Let a thousand different voices Find a rhythm side by side We don’t have to be the same We don’t have to disappear We can make a little heaven With the time we have down here Outro — soft communal voices One breath, one moment A million ways to care Different hearts, different stories Still, there’s room for all of us here While we’re still here While we’re still here
