We Needed Time

Things rarely go as planned

All the dreams that we envisioned

Seemed to crumble in our hands

So suddenly alone

With my thoughts and my decisions

With the life that I have known

That will forever be changed

And I pray it’s for the better

Taking what we learned together

To finally build a better world

But we needed time to catch up

The race we started, put on pause

Slow the wheels that fast were grinding

On the things that matter most

We needed time to let go

Of worthless things we valued wrong

To rediscover new directions

New beginnings

There’s so much we can do

Since we’re all in this together

Let’s find ways to make it through

There’s something to be said

For having time to mull it over

Think about what lies ahead

This exceptional moment

Inconceivable and strange

Where we stop to rearrange

Where we’re forced to reexamine

What we truly care for

Who we would sacrifice all for

But we needed time to catch up

The fires we started, let cool down

Slow the speed that we were driving

Stop the train and just get off

We needed time to finally see

There’s so much more that we can be

To reimagine, make some good news

Find a new way

And when we’re finally looking in our rearview mirror

I hope it shows us the way forward

That much clearer

With our baggage much lighter

Grateful, caring and wiser

But we needed time to catch up

The fights we started, wind them down

Slow the rhetoric we’re spouting

When we’ve just walked on common ground

We needed time to recognize

How easily we’re all equalized

Each one of us pieces of the same thing

Of the same team

Things rarely go as planned