The Western Wall

Lyrics

[ETHAN] Christopher McGuinness Of Dearborn, Michigan Awoke to the sound of a doorbell And a man in a limousine And thereupon was driven To a clinic in Ann Arbor Where a team of surgeons worked for hours And saved his heart They saved his heart And he never met the doctors And he never saw a bill And when I met Chris McGuinness In a bar in Sugar Hill He said, "I don't understand it And I guess I never will But God reached out to me "All I ever did Was write a prayer to God On a tiny piece of paper That I stuffed into the cracks Of the Western Wall" [ETHAN & (ENSEMBLE)] The Western Wall David Wild in London (Chanda Kapur of Mumbai) Got a grant to study vertebrates (Got four goats and a fence) And Renata Heinz of Düsseldorf Got the title for her family farm And fourteen other cases Since 1987 Where a hopeless soul was rescued By an unseen hand An unseen hand [ETHAN] And what they all have in common Is when things were at their worst When they had no other options When they felt their lives were cursed Then a miracle befell them And they say, like they've rehearsed [ETHAN & ENSEMBLE] "God reached out to me! All I ever did Was write a prayer to God On a tiny piece of paper That I stuffed into the cracks Of the Western Wall" The Western Wall [SOME ENSEMBLE] The Western Wall [OTHER ENSEMBLE] Put a prayer in the cracks of the Western Wall In the cracks of the Western Wall [SOME ENSEMBLE] The Western Wall [OTHER ENSEMBLE] Put a prayer in the cracks and God will find it [ETHAN] A street near the Mount of Olives At midnight in Jerusalem And an heiress I'll call Anna Is showing me what she does She hikes up to a clearing Where each June and December They bury the prayers collected from The Wailing Wall [ETHAN & ENSEMBLE] The Wailing Wall [ETHAN] And Anna tells me fiercely That the crisis of our day Is that faith is disappearing And there has to be a way To re-inspire the wonder That could make somebody say [ETHAN & ENSEMBLE] "God reached out to me" So she digs through piles of wishes And if she can identify whoever wrote it, she'll fulfill it No matter what she has to try And she's burned through all her fortune And I needed to know why And she said [ETHAN] "God reached out to me God reached out to me" [ENSEMBLE] "All I ever did Was write a prayer to God On [ETHAN & ENSEMBLE] "A tiny piece of paper That I stuffed into the cracks Of [SOME ENSEMBLE] The Western Wall [ETHAN & OTHER ENSEMBLE] Put a prayer in the cracks of the Western Wall In the cracks of the Western Wall [SOME ENSEMBLE] The Western Wall [ETHAN & OTHER ENSEMBLE] Put a prayer in the cracks and God will find it [SOME ENSEMBLE] The Western Wall [ETHAN & OTHER ENSEMBLE] Put a prayer in the cracks of the Western Wall In the cracks of the Western Wall Put a prayer in the cracks and God will find it Put a prayer in the cracks of the Western Wall In the cracks of the Western Wall Put a prayer in the cracks and God will find it Put a prayer in the cracks of the Western Wall In the cracks of the Western Wall Put a prayer in the cracks and God will find it [ETHAN & ENSEMBLE, spoken] "Until they can see God," she said "I will have to be God"