Redemption Day

Verse 1: I've wept for those who suffer long But how I weep for those who've gone Into rooms of grief and questioned wrong But keep on killing Verse 2: It's in the soul to feel such things But weak to watch without speaking Oh what mercy sadness brings If God be willing (Riff 1) Chorus: There is a train that's heading straight To heaven's gate, to heaven's gate And on the way, child and man And woman wait, watch and wait For redemption day Verse 3: The fire rages in the streets And swallows everything it meets It's just an image often seen On television Verse 4: Come leaders, come you men of great Let us hear you pontificate Your many virtues laid to waste Riff 1 And we aren't listening Verse 5: (Different) What do you have for us today Throw us a bone but saw the plate Oh why we waited til so late Was there no oil to excavate No riches in trade for the fate Of every person who died in hate Throw us a bone, you men of great Chorus: There is a train that's heading straight To heaven's gate, to heaven's gate And on the way, child and man And woman wait, watch and wait Riff 1 For redemption day Verse 6: It's buried in the countryside Exploding in the shells of night It's everywhere a baby cries Freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom Ends on