[Verse 1]

If it were just the best of us

Against the rest of us

It wouldn't even be an argument at all

It would be a victory or

A Spanish Civil War

But I'm really not so sure that is the way it is at all



[Chorus 1]

If we are to find a way to live

Then we need to build ourselves a bridge

And if we were to build ourselves that bridge

We could meet in the middle and forgive



[Verse 2]

If all we are is dust to dust

Then in the end what's left of us

Are the traces of the way we treat the ones we meet

And the ones who trouble us

The greatest test of us

Seems to me to be the way we disagree



[Chorus 2]

If we are to find a way to live

Then we need to build ourselves a bridge

And if we were to build ourselves that bridge

We could meet in the middle and forgive

Let's meet on the bridge and forgive

(Let's meet on the bridge and forgive)

Let's meet on the bridge and forgive

(Let's meet on the bridge and forgive)



[Bridge]

If there's hope to be found

We will find it in our common ground

And if that ground is to be reached

There are walls around us to be breached

And if that breach can be made

Drag the others through don't be afraid

Or let our differences drag us down

I believe we'll find our common ground



[Outro]

I want us to find a way to live

Roll up your sleeves let's build a bridge

I want us to find a way to live

Let's meet on the bridge and forgive

(Let's meet on the bridge and forgive)

Let's meet on the bridge and forgive

(Let's meet on the bridge and forgive)

Let's meet on the bridge and forgive (common ground)

Let's meet on the bridge and forgive (common ground)