By Lauren Wilford
Just twelve kids at a table
In a frostbitten room
Just Pascal and the Bible
Our library cocoon
We laughed more than we should have
When nobody would look
We had each moment captured
Written down in our book
Thirty hours, forty weeks, three short summers
Doesn’t add up the bond that we’ve made
All the sweet funny things we discovered
All the prayers we prayed
Can you believe
What we’ve had all this time
Growing each other up
Having the chance
To make up a mind
(Melodic refrain)
In the pages of novels
We found out who we were
Dog eared pages and grass stains
Catching truth in a blur
All the hours compiling
Arguments to defend
Wasn’t harder than learning
How to nurture a friend
Should it hurt, should it make us cry
Watching everyong brrak away?
But our God’s teaching each one to fly
He gave us this day
Can you believe
What we’ve had all this time
Growing each other up
Having the chance
To make up a mind
When we look back
And it’s all left behind
In some small way,
Did I do my part
To make up your mind?
(Bridge)
Do you know when I broke
It was you who helped me be strong
Do you know that I cried
When I knew I had treated you wrong
We read things that mattered
And things that were beautifully true
Do you know that I found
The meaning of life next to you
(Melodic Refrain, Chorus)
God gave me the gift
Of having no doubt
You’ve made up my mind
That should read "library cocoon"... my bad.
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