Redemption Day

Sheryl Crow

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
   
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 

R: 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

3. The fire rages in the streets
   And swallows everything it meets
   It's just an image often seen
   On television
   
4. Come leaders, come you men of great
   Let us hear you pontificate
   Your many virtues laid to waste  
   And we aren't listening

*1: 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 ate
    Throw us a bone, you men of great

R: 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
   
*2: It's buried in the countryside  
    Exploding in the shells of night
    It's everywhere a baby cries