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Sheryl Crow, Johnny Cash - Redemption Day

Lyrics

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

It's in the soul to feel such things

But weak to watch without speaking

Oh what mercy sadness brings

If God be willing

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

Fire rages in the streets

And swallows everything it meets

It's just an image often seen

On television

Come leaders, come ye men of great

Let us hear you pontificate

Your many virtues laid to waste

And we aren't listening

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

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