Common Ground

Common Ground
by Scott Ainslie & Tom Chapin
© 2000 Cattail Music & The Last Music Co. (ASCAP)

Come in the door is open,
You are welcome here.
Come in the door is open,
Leave out all doubt and fear.
We’ll plant a seed together
And together watch it grow,
And learn once more what we already know.
Lift up your voice,
Rejoice in what we’ve found.
Let every heart take refuge in the sound.
Feel the walls around us tremble,
We will surely bring them down
And find ourselves on Common Ground.
And find ourselves on Common Ground.

This is how we celebrate
Our song and dance and art.
This is how we touch the future,
How we touch a heart.
Tell your story to a child,
And they’ll take it as their own
This is how we learn we’re not alone.
Lift up your voice,
Rejoice in what we’ve found.
Let every heart take refuge in the sound.
Feel the walls around us tremble,
We will surely bring them down
And find ourselves on Common Ground.
And find ourselves on Common Ground.

In our time together I begin to understand
There are bridges we can only cross
Together hand in hand.
Soon we’ll head on homeward
And go our separate ways,
But these echoes will be
Dancing down our days.
Lift up your voice,
Rejoice in what we’ve found.
Let every heart take refuge in the sound.
Feel the walls around us tremble,
We will surely bring them down
And find ourselves on Common Ground.
And find ourselves on Common Ground.

This song appears on Tom Chapin's Common Ground CD.

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