This episode is also available as a blog post: https://imnotgoood21blog.wordpress.com/2023/04/17/as-life-hangs-in-the-balance-the-whole-world-lay-in-these-hands/

"Climbing, climbing
looking around
chiming, chiming
thinking aloud

Wondering how the whole
world could be so proud
Finding all these reasons
to fade into the crowd
sighing, crying
from the bottom
of the ground

eying the sky
listening to the sounds…

the people all around
on their knees
crying, hiding —

filling in the void
with vices and lies,
trying to get a grip
on the edge of the Earth
meanwhile the whole world
is dying inside

following the path
of our Mother’s and Father’s:
lying and fighting
crying and dying
but you see,
the people are
still always trying

I thank God
for this life,
yet now my
soul is sighing —

seeing that the whole
world is dying…
and I look to these
hands,
for it’s inside the mind
that We dance this dance

but there’s a chance,
there’s a chance!

before our souls
leave this land

a chance to awaken
to pry the darkness from
these hands,
the shadow from
these lands,
the hopeless from
their strands

I pray,
I pray that God
will let us
dance this last dance —

For:
As life hangs in the balance,
the whole world lay in our hands.

And I know we have the Will
if we’d just take the Chance

I know we’ll find the Light
if we’d just lift our Hands

Try with all our Might
While we dance this Dance.

For:
As life hangs in the balance,
the whole world lay in our hands."