How Long?

These aren't the songs I want to sing
About faith and peace and hope.
Cos everything will not be fine
It's in the dark we grope.

Cry out to the Lord, I heard them say
But I did that all before.
And all I heard was my desperate voice
And a throat that's become so sore.

I shed the tears, I prayed the prayers
And still nothing has changed.
How can a God that loves us so
Leave this world, this way deranged?

It's different for me who had a chance,
Who knows what it's like to have grace
But I know these orphans who got nothing in life
And they're still kicked around the place.

What does it matter if salvation comes
In a life after we don't care?
Who cares if the Lamb of God stands out,
Who cares if the Christ is there?

The don't think of the end or the heavenly realm
They surviving from day to day
Some don't get the chance to survive the day,
There's always a price to pay.

I'm sick of rejoicing, I'm sick of asking
I'm sick of being brought to my knees
And I'm not even the one who is hurting
It's not my pain I grieve.

How long, Oh Lord, will you make us wait?
How long will we speak out in vain?
How long will you sit back with idle hands
Watch your children writhe in pain?

Are you really Yahweh, a God who saves?
Do you even hear their cry?
I can hear deafening in my ears
You don't answer, I don't know why?

Our name is Israel yes? you called us Israel?
We're a people who struggle with God.
But aren't we s'pose to overcome, after all is done.
Don't you save us from the coming flood?

I don't know what to say, how to make you hear
That heaven after is not enough.
You can't give them more, the world it tears apart
This life is cruel and harse and tough.

All I have left is a plea, a beggar on my knees,
That somehow you will wipe out the dirt.
That in my disbelief your light will blast away
Everything that caused them hurt.

Please.