The Change

[Kristin]

I found this, or should I say re-discovered, this song that Garth 
Brooks recorded in 1995. I guess this is my way of summing up how I'm 
feeling about the horrific events of yesterday. I wish I could find 
an audio link for it. Hopefully just the words will be as powerful as 
the song. Below is a short little background on the song.

Garth, an Oklahoma native, put this song on his album Fresh Horses as 
a way of paying tribute to the Oklahoma bombing victims and survivors.

"There's also a song called 'The Change,' which I feel is probably 
the most powerful song I have ever dealt with and it speaks on a 
subject that is very close to me." Fresh Horses was released in Nov. 
1995.

The Change 
Written by: Tony Arata, Wayne Tester 
 
One hand 
Reaches out 
And pulls a lost soul from harm 
While a thousand more go unspoken for 
They say what good have you done 
By saving just this one 
It's like whispering a prayer 
In the fury of a storm 

And I hear them saying you'll never change things 
And no matter what you do it's still the same thing 
But it's not the world that I am changing 
I do this so this world will know 
That it will not change me 

This heart 
Still believes 
The love and mercy still exist 
While all the hatred rage and so many say 
That love is all but pointless in madness such as this 
It's like trying to stop a fire 
With the moisture from a kiss 

And I hear them saying you'll never change things 
And no matter what you do it's still the same thing 
But it's not the world that I am changing 
I do this so this world will know 
That it will not change me 

As long as one heart still holds on 
Then hope is never really gone 

I hear them saying you'll never change things 
And no matter what you do it's still the same thing 
But it's not the world that I am changing 
I do this so this world we know 
Never changes me 

What I do is so 
This world will know 
That it will not change me 


Hoping that this tragedy won't change us, or me, for the worse.

Kristin