Do We Dare Lyrics - Singles - Carolyn Arends

The prayers that we pray in foxholes and funerals 

The songs that we sing in delivery rooms 

The questions we ask when nobody's listening 

But the man in the moon 

The way our hearts beat, faced with a sunrise 

Like maybe they know something we don't 

But it's all in code and we can't decode it 

Or maybe we won't 

Do we dare pay attention, dare even mention 

The mystery we find ourselves caught in 

And do we dare to remember 

All that we have forgotten 

Each breath that we take, we take for granted 

So if there are clues we remain unaware 

All the days of our lives burn down like matches 

Vanish into thin air 

But there are dreams that we dream when we least expect them 

And memories that come like unbidden tears 

All the things we believed when we were just children 

It's been so many years 

Do we dare pay attention, dare even mention 

The mystery we find ourselves caught in 

And do we dare to remember 

All that we have forgotten 

We are battered and torn from the day we are born 

In a world that has blinded and bound us 

Is it any surprise we don't open our eyes 

To the truth that's disguised all around us? 

Like the secrets we keep, we don't know we're keeping 

From before there was time, before there were lies 

Can we find you again, this far from the garden? 

Do we dare even try? 

Do we dare pay attention, dare even mention 

The mystery we find ourselves caught in 

And do we dare to remember 

All that we have forgotten? 

Forgotten, forgotten