theuglytruth
09Oct10
Children Of A Lesser God
Written and performed by Mark Glenn & the Glenn
children
What did I ever do to you?
Did I ever bring danger to your home,
What injustices old or new?
What did I ever do or say-
That could possibly justify the things
You are doing to me this day?
Right now they’re only whispers of wonder
But tomorrow they’ll rage like the thunder.
What did we ever do to you-
Are we children of a lesser god
Not as shiny and not as new?
What did we ever do or say
That could possibly justify the things
You are doing to us this day?
And yet through all this madness you wonder
Why our outrage is rising like thunder…
When all we want is just to live
In the peace we’ve always needed
And not stare in the face of death
As the conquered and defeated
As children of a lesser god
We are sacrificed and slaughtered
And not allowed to shed a tear
As we bury sons and daughters…
What is it we have to do-
To make a blind world understand
That we bleed and daydream too?
What is it we have to say-
To make these madmen pack their things
And abandon our homes today?
Our children cry loud as the thunder
As day by day their lives are torn asunder…
When all we want is just to live
In the peace we’ve always needed…
And not stare in the face of death
As the conquered and defeated…
As children of a lesser god
We are sacrificed and slaughtered
And not allowed to grieve and weep
As we bury sons and daughters
What is it that must be said-
To make these madmen understand
All the evil that’s in their heads?
What is it that must be done-
To make them heed his final words
As He entered Jerusalem?
And still through the desert we wander
We beg and we plead and we ponder
We hope and we cry and we wonder
Will we ever live days free of thunder?
All we want is just to live
In the peace we’ve always needed…
And not stare in the face of death
As the conquered and defeated
As children of a lesser god
We are sacrificed and slaughtered
And not allowed to raise a fist
To defend our sons and daughters.
All we want is just to live…
All we want is just to live…
We children of a lesser god…
© 2010 Mark Glenn
River to Sea
Uprooted Palestinian
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