We Are Here For Each Other w/ Kirk James

In the days after Hurricane Harvey, I heard a story on the radio about a person who lost everything, and I mean everything. During the interview, the question came up: “how did you get through all of this?” The answer, through the tears of this man, was “I learned that we are here for each other.” I was so touched by this experience that the lyrics of this song, in the voice of this tearful man, poured out of me over the next hour or so.

It was a year later that the tune showed up to fit the words. With a minimal amount of editing, the song came alive.

The song helps me always remember, especially in our darkest hours, “We are not alone, we are together, We are here for each other.”

Thanks for Fred Kosak for adding guitar to this 2023 version.

• We Are Here For Each Other

  Lost my mother, I miss her
  Lost my wife to cancer
  The winds of Harvey left all I owned a blur
  All I had left was looking for answers
  
  CHORUS
  Sister, brother, next door neighbor
  Best friend, enemy, total stranger We are here we are here for each
  
  Lost if all, now it’s only me
  Don’t know what to do, what to believe
  Hanging by a thread, no sense to me,
  I’m down on my knees
  

  CHORUS
  
  Bridge
  What I learned to make sense of the pain
  To remain sane
  We are not alone, we are together
  We are here for each other
  
  So much has happened to me
  Got to find a reason to believe
  What point, a purpose, a path to relief
  All I can do is wait and see

  CHORUS 2X
  
  2017 Geoff Wolf