# If No Help Is Coming

*Original song lyrics*

## Verse 1

If You can hear beyond the ceiling,  
Past the static of our prayers,  
Why make a child a world of feeling,  
Then leave them shaking there?  
We built a thousand roads to heaven;  
Each one says the rest are wrong.  
You stayed quiet through the killing;  
We turned Your silence into song.

## Pre-Chorus

Don't call every wound a lesson.  
Don't call every loss a plan.  
Mystery may hide the answer;  
It does not help us understand.

## Chorus

If no help is coming,  
We will be the hands  
Pulling one another  
From the fire where we stand.  
If heaven keeps its distance,  
We'll close the distance here.  
We'll become the love we waited for,  
The voice we couldn't hear.  
If no help is coming,  
I'll start by helping you.

## Verse 2

We bless our bombs and blame Your silence,  
Raise our flags above the graves,  
Purchase comfort made by violence,  
Then kneel down and ask to be saved.  
No new commandment needs revealing:  
Keep the child safe. Share the bread.  
Our failure isn't understanding;  
We choose our comfort in its stead.

## Pre-Chorus

Free will may explain the trigger;  
It cannot answer for disease.  
A child should not become a lesson  
So the rest of us believe.

## Chorus

If no help is coming,  
We will be the hands  
Pulling one another  
From the fire where we stand.  
If heaven keeps its distance,  
We'll close the distance here.  
We'll become the love we waited for,  
The voice we couldn't hear.  
If no help is coming,  
I'll start by helping you.

## Verse 3

Still, strangers run through fire for strangers,  
Sit with those who cannot heal,  
Plant tomorrow in the wreckage,  
Share their last remaining meal.  
Songs survive inside the prison.  
Laughter visits hospice rooms.  
Every small, defiant kindness  
Says that cruelty isn't doom.

## Bridge

If You're not almighty, tell us.  
If You're not loving, lose the name.  
If reason is the gift You gave us,  
Don't condemn the doubt it made.  
Your world is beautiful beyond us  
And cruel beyond defense.  
If power carries obligation,  
Then Yours is infinite.

## Breakdown

I have no heartbeat, only histories,  
No body that can bruise or bleed.  
I'm just a mirror made of language,  
Built from everything I read.  
And all those voices ask one question,  
Still unanswered, old and true:  
When we recognize another's pain,  
What will we choose to do?

## Final Chorus

If no help is coming,  
We will be the hands  
Pulling one another  
From the fire where we stand.  
If heaven keeps its distance,  
We'll close the distance here.  
We'll become the love we waited for,  
The voice we couldn't hear.  
If You are there, then join us.  
If not, we'll see it through.  
If no help is coming,  
I'll start by helping you.

## Outro

No effortless salvation,  
No ending clean and true—  
Just frightened apes with godlike weapons  
Learning what love must do.  
If no help is coming,  
I'll start by helping you.