The Narrow Bridge

Lyrics

[Verse 1] This is the narrow bridge And you will stand there Peering at the unraveling of a dark line across a chasm And you will not philosophize, decide, weigh You will simply put your head down and start moving Feeling your way inch by inch, unguided by voices Using only the sound of your own sound reflected Feeling the rope of the narrow bridge This is your protection As you move towards the end of the millennium [Verse 2] Every moment spent bent over work Not cutting corners, doing things with care Is protection Is the bridge to carry you through the darkness For to do something with care Is the closest thing to the feeling of love that can be found It is all I know This is protection This is the narrow bridge [Verse 3] And the hand reaches out for the drink, for the drug And it grabs a cloth instead And you protest And you start to clean And you clean the corners like they've never been cleaned before And you weep as you clean, but you keep on going And in this tiny gesture of respect The protection is found And the cape of grace Moves softly down about the shoulders Throwing a safety line out to love