Heaven Help

Heaven Help
by John McCutcheon & Tom Chapin
© 2001 Appalsongs & The Last Music Co. (ASCAP)

Heaven help the one. Heaven help the two.
Heaven help me say these things I need to say to you.
It seems a simple thing to tell you how I feel,
But I’m stumbling and I’m staggering over what I know is real.

Back when we were young, just a boy and girl,
It seems like we had all the time and chances in the world.
A graduation gown into a wedding dress,
With a garden in the backyard and a baby at your breast.
This world we made from love and flesh and bone
Grew up and walked out the door
And made lives of their own.

So here we are again as the river flows on,
This house feels like a coat too big
With the children grown and gone.
And now we’re left alone, just me, just you.
And all this space to find ourselves, I guess it’s overdue.
After all these years you’d think I’d have a name.
For the mystery that keeps this heart and mind aflame

Come take my hand. Come take my heart.
Come take me to that place where you and I can start.
And let the lights go down. Let the days grow dim
Though all the world may turn you out, I will take you in.

Heaven help the one. Heaven help the two.

This song appears on Tom Chapin's Doing Our Job CD.

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