Judy Kass

Lyrics

At Our Best (by Judy Kass and Jon Shain)
You could hear a pin drop in the morning train car
No one was rushing that day
A reverent silence fell like soft ash
On souls that were beaten and gray
An elderly woman dropped her last coins
In the cup of a sleeping man
And, I offered my seat to a dust covered worker
Who gently replied, “Thanks, I’ll stand.”
In the space of our shared grief
We offered each other comfort and relief
Small acts of goodness were gold to be mined
We were at our best during the worst of times
We move through the years looking for ways
To make sense of the life we have now
And the heroes emerge from everyday places
And we survive somehow
We had the goodwill
Of the world for some days
Till we rushed into war
And it soon fell away
But you could hear a pin drop that day on the train
When the world seemed much closer and kind
And the lines for a few precious moments were gone
Leaving all that divides us behind
In the space of our shared grief
We offered each other comfort and relief
Small acts of goodness were gold to be mined
Yeah, we were at our best during the worst of times
Those times
Those times