Redemption Day
I’ve wept for those who suffer longBut how I weep for those who’ve goneInto rooms of grief and questioned wrongBut keep on killing
It’s in the soul to feel such thingsBut weak to watch without speakingOh, what mercy sadness bringsIf God be willing
There is a train that’s heading straightTo heaven’s gate to heaven’s gateAnd on the way child and manAnd woman wait watch and waitFor redemption day
Fire rages in the streetsAnd swallow everything it meetsIt’s just an image often seenOn television
Come leaders, come you men of greatLet us hear you pontificateYour many virtues laid to wasteAnd we aren’t listening
What do you have for us today?Throw us a bone but save the plateOh, why we waited til so late?Was there no oil to excavate?
No riches in trade for the fateOf every person who died in hateThrow us a bone, you men of great
There is a train that’s heading straightTo heaven’s gate, to heaven’s gateAnd on the way, child and manAnd woman wait, watch and waitFor redemption day
It’s buried in the countrysideIt’s exploding in the shells of nightIt’s everywhere a baby criesFreedom