Between The Cracks

Song Between The Cracks
Artist John Mark McMillan
Album The Medicine

Lyrics

[00:27.13] Hope grows between
[00:28.94] the cracks in the asphalt
[00:31.05] in the down downtown
[00:32.40] ghetto streets that contour the government
[00:36.35] housing intentions of my heart
[00:42.70] And no one notices
[00:44.88] the daisies don't care
[00:46.89] about gang related violence
[00:49.12] as long as they get enough air and water and sun
[00:53.89] they're all just fine
[02:07.26][00:59.07] Who would have thought it but life is finding a way
[01:03.79] through this wasteland of cynics, concrete, and pain
[02:18.87][01:10.75] There's a man down here somewhere between
[02:22.71][01:14.76] those Saturday cartoons and the dirty magazines
[01:18.83] He's raising the dead in graveyards
[02:30.91][01:22.44] where we've laid down our dreams
[02:33.75][01:25.85] and His name is hope
[01:35.10] Hope stands high
[01:36.78] on the fifteenth floor
[01:38.76] of a Christmas tree perched
[01:40.93] about the ledge
[01:42.12] of a fortress of steel
[01:43.81] that's trying too hard
[01:45.83] to be somebody's home
[01:50.67] as it seized
[01:51.90] my attention from I-85
[01:54.78] though the throes of the day were
[01:57.09] still writhing inside
[01:58.68] I lifted my head
[02:00.78] as I drove home that night
[02:02.88] and knew that everything was gonna be fine.
[02:11.92] through this wasteland of cynics, concrete, and pain.
[02:26.94] He's raising the dead in graveyards
[03:45.98][03:38.18][03:29.79][03:21.81][03:14.25][03:05.84] His name is hope
[03:53.44][03:41.23][03:33.18][03:25.51][03:17.45][03:09.01] everybody needs a little
[04:30.63] Can hear him outside
[04:32.87] He's been singing all night
[04:34.76] He's saying, "When are you gonna
[04:36.30] come out from behind
[04:38.91] these paper thin walls of your
[04:41.25] cardboard box reality.