Apparent Paradox

Copyright Dana Clark 2021 


 

There's no day without night, no wrong without right

Yang requires yin. Virtue needs sin

We're early, we're late, We love and we hate

We're last and we're first, the best and the worst


 

VERSE: The warmth of home delights us most when there's a storm outside

A smile shines out more brilliantly with every tear that's cried

The dissonance in music makes a harmony sound sweet

And our victories seem much greater after we have known defeat


 

VERSE: When losing what we love the most leaves what we love the least 

We cling tighter to the very thing we struggle to release

And when we've lost it all we find there's so much more to give

Once we know what we'd die for we discover how to live


 

CHORUS: Yes, we're a walking contradiction, an apparent paradox

A mix of the ideal and what was in Pandora's box

We're as crazy as we're sane.

We're ordinary and strange 

We think we understand ourselves

Then...we change


 

BRIDGE: There's faith and there's doubt. We're in or we're out. 

We're hot and we're cold. We're young and we're old 

There's loss and there's gain. There's pleasure and pain

Strangers and friends have beginnings and ends


 

VERSE: We never know how brave we are until we've been afraid

We don't know who we cannot trust until we've been betrayed

The brightest sunrise dawns once we have faced the darkest night

We say we strive for peace and yet we escalate the fight


 

VERSE: We cannot have the joy of being found 'til we've been lost

We pay the price, and still refuse to calculate the cost

And when we face the famine and our last brave hope has ceased

Still we set the table and prepare to serve the feast


 

CHORUS