Mary’s Window

Lyrics

Mary's looking out at the empty streets of her town February morning, rain's falling down She's missing the greetings and small talk there At the library, grocery store, village square Has the baby started crawling? I like your hair that way How's your mother feeling? Sure is cold out today That quiet cadence, the refrain of a town With the cashier, manager, librarian The sound of goodwill, kindness and care And Mary knows she'll always belong there But now this country of hers has been ravaged and cleaved By all this sickness and hatred and bigotry Fueled by the liеs of the fools who would lead Lies told for powеr, malice, and greed But this old woman's seen troubled times before When the people rose up to shine a light once more So in spite of her fears she'd play her part again Band together with young and old, women and men And on the third of November she stood in that line With the manager, cashier, librarian beside And their voices of goodwill a mighty sound made And the cadence of towns was a nation's refrain And truth and hope drowned out lies and hate From cities to farms, from oceans to lakes And then from deepest Georgia that same refrain And then a man of goodwill and kindness and care Placed a hand on a bible and the other in the air And that cadence infused every word he did say And a nation heard and rejoiced that day They'd put differences aside Reach out to each other Lend a hand when it's needed To their sisters and brothers Return to the hard work of trying to be The people and the nation they still could be Still could be Mary's looking out at the rain coming down But it's a rain of renewal washing over them now She's knitting a hat for that baby in town That pretty cashier's baby, it won't be long now Till she can hand it to her mother over in town Oh the goodness of people can't be put down It just keeps on The sound of kindness It just keeps on Can't be silenced It just keeps on