Two months is too little, they let him go   They had no sudden healing   To think that providence   Would take a child from his mother   While she prays, is appalling      Who told us we?d be rescued   What has changed and   Why should we be saved from nightmares   We?re asking why this happens to us      Who have died to live, it?s unfair   This is what it means to be held   How it feels when the sacred is torn from your life   And you survive      This is what it is to be loved and to know   That the promise was that when everything fell   We?d be held      This hand is bitterness   We want to taste it and   Let the hatred numb our sorrows   The wise hand opens slowly   To lilies of the valley and tomorrow      This is what it means to be held   How it feels, when the sacred is torn from your life   And you survive      This is what it is to be loved and to know   That the promise was that when everything fell   We?d be held      If hope if born of suffering   If this is only the beginning   Can we not wait for one hour   Watching for our Savior      This is what it means to be held   How it feels, when the sacred is torn from your life   And you survive      This is what it is to be loved and to know   That the promise was that when everything fell   We?d be held