Looking for words that just won't come
To tell a story that isn't there
Trying to break a block of diamond rock
Why is the one God so angry with the hungry and the meek
Siding with power gluttons to crush and burn the weak
Smiting with his infinite might the pleas of the weeping
And now you have to question the company he's been keeping
When are the lives of the many overshadowed by the few
When the righteous are in power and they're all well-to-do
When the Prince of Peace is omitted for a doctrine of slaughter
When the blood runs to thickly for any holy water
When the son is blotted out by the politics of fear
And freedom is a fleeting dream in the western hemisphere
The Sunni cried foul at the Shi'ite's bold claim
To know the will of God, invoking his holy name
And another world has shattered, another child has died
It's a clever way to keep the divide gaping wide
A Baptist hung a Jew as the Catholics softly sang
An angelic choir lulled the lay and the wolf sharpened his fang
The wind still blows on the skin of the babes
Although it will never fill their lungs
Their home is in rubble, family's all dead
The lingering thought - what have we done?
An eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth
But for the coward, no rest from the truth
All the gold has been tarnished and the treasures lost at sea
You given all you had to break this curse and be free
Suitcase on the doorstep to a house burned away
And yet you feel compelled for a long term stay
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