A beautiful song that I heard today:

We Laugh, We Cry
I.
We laugh, we cry, we live, we die;
we dance, we sing our song.
We need to feel there's something here
to which we can belong.

We need to feel the freedom
just to have some time alone.
But most of all we need close friends
we can call our very own.

And we believe in life,
and in the strength of love;
and we have found a need
to be together.

We have our hearts to give,
we have our thoughts to receive;
and we believe that sharing
is an answer.


II.
A child is born among us
and we feel a special glow.
We see time's endless journey
as we watch the baby grow.

We thrill to hear imagination
freely running wild.
We dedicate our minds and hearts
to the spirit of this child.

And we believe in life,
and in the strength of love;
and we have found a time
to be together.

And with the grace of age,
we share the wonder of youth,
and we believe that growing
is an answer.


III.
Our lives are full of wonder and
our time is very brief.
The death of one among us
fills us all with pain and grief.

But as we live so shall we die
and when our lives are done
the memories we shared with friends
they will linger on and on.

And we believe in life,
and in the strength of love;
and we have found a place
to be together.

We have the right to grow,
we have the gift to believe
that peace within our living
is an answer.


IV.
We seek elusive answers to
the questions of this life.
We seek to put an end to all
the waste of human strife.

We search for truth, equality,
and blessed peace of mind.
And then, we come together here
to make sense of what we find.

And we believe in life,
and in the strength of love;
and we have found a joy
being together.

And in our search of peace,
maybe we'll finally see:
even to question truly
is an answer.





Words and music: Shelley Jackson Denham, 1950-
Harmony by Betsy Jo Angebranndt, 1931-