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John Hiatt

MESSAGE BOARD Following the attacks on September 11, many people have looked to art, in all its forms, for consolation. Did any piece of art help comfort you following the attacks?  VISUAL ARTS Jean Holabird of Cambridge painted "10-3 - Murrary and Greenwich, 3 p.m.," a watercolor scene from Ground Zero. Many artists responded visually to the September 11 attacks. See artwork  LYRICS AND POETRY Read the song lyrics and poetry that helped many cope with the grief they felt after September 11: 'Across the Universe', Lennon/McCartney 'America the Beautiful', Katherine Lee Bates 'American Tune', Paul Simon 'Change the Day', Alex MacDougall 'Colors of the Wind', Vanessa Williams 'Leap', Brian Doyle 'He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother', The Hollies 'Jesus, etc.', Wilco 'Love and Mercy', Brian Wilson 'Lucky', Radiohead 'Memorial for A City', W. H. Auden 'Musee Des Beaux Arts', W. H. Auden 'One', Cheryl Sawyer Chorus from 'The Other Side', Joie Scott and Richard Wold 'The Other Side', Don Conoscenti 'Overcome', Live 'The Peace of Wild Things', Wendell Berry 'Rhymes and Reasons', John Denver 'Rockin' in the Free World', Neil Young 'September 1, 1939', W.H. Auden 'Show the Way', David Wilcox 'Song in a Year of Catastrophe', Wendell Berry 'The Summer Day', Mary Oliver 'Superman', Five for Fighting 'There You'll Be', Diane Warren 'Through Your Hands', John Hiatt 'Trouble of the World', Mahalia Jackson 'Try to Praise the Mutilated World', Adam Zagajewski 'Victory in Defeat', Edwin Markham

You were dreaming on a park bench
'Bout a broad highway somewhere
When the music from the carillon
Seemed to hurl your heart out there
Past the scientific darkness
Past the fireflies that float
To an angel bending down
To wrap you in her warmest coat

And you ask, "What am I not doing?"
She says "Your voice cannot command.
In time, you will move mountains,
And it will come through your hands."

Still you argue for an option
Still you angle for your case
Like you wouldn't know a burning bush
If it blew up in your face
Yeah, we scheme about the future
And we dream about the past
When just a simple reaching out
Might build a bridge that lasts

And you ask, "What am I not doing?"
She says "Your voice cannot command.
In time, you will move mountains,
And it will come through your hands."

So whatever your hands find to do
You must do with all your heart
There are thoughts enough
To blow men's minds and tear great worlds apart

There's a healing touch to find you
On that broad highway somewhere
To lift you high
As music flying
Through the angel's hair.

Don't ask what you are not doing
Because your voice cannot command
In time we will move mountains
And it will come through your hands