Behind the FAWM Series #12 - "Broken Things"

A couple of years ago, in the midst of a lot of heartache and grief all around me, I put up the following Facebook status update:

"I want to fix these broken things"

Friends children were dying of cancer, multiple friends were divorcing, and all over the world, people were hungry, fighting, suffering, and in some cases, all of the above.

The thought just came to me as I sat overwhelmed, wishing I had some tool, some answer, some way of changing a million impossible situations.
I want to fix these things.
I wish I could fix them.

At the time I wrote that status update I was asking for song titles and several of you suggested writing about that, and so, a song was born.

These Broken Things

Song title suggested by Anne-Marie Strohman, Lisa Zisa, and several others...

Here I stand on shattered dusty ground
Nails and plans, hammer in my hands
Falling down
Falling down
Pieces run through my fingers just like sand

Hungry without food to eat
I want to fix these broken things
Love that fades and tears that sting
I want to fix these things

Guns and wars and casualties
I want to fix these broken things
Love that fades and tears that sting
I want to fix these things

I want to fix these things

Far beyond the wreckage and the dust

Hope will come for every daughter, every son

Falling down

Falling down

Every tear will be wiped away by love

You take the dishes, I keep the ring

I want to fix these broken things

Love that fades and tears that sting
I want to fix these things

Every sob and every scream

I want to fix these broken things

Love that fades and tears that sting

I want to fix these things

I want to fix these things
Who can fix these things