Reflections on Lent: Let Us Love

- Let Us Love -

by NeedtoBreath

We were born to embrace not accept it

We were given nothing more so we kept it

As the color of our boots keep fading

We live a life that we hate without saying

Who would listen to the cries of a poor man

We never done nothing

How can we be something

 

Every heart has an hour of existence

Every breath brings a chance for redemption

If somehow we could Wake Up!

Let us love (like we were children)

Make us feel (like we're still living)

in a world I know is burning to the ground

Give us time (to beat the system)

Make us find (what we've been missing)

In a world I know is burning to the ground

In the crowd of the dead and disappointed

We're ashamed given up on what we wanted

Take a chance at long shot this time

Aren't we all just at least worth another try

 

I'm a king in the land of abuses

Undermined by the promise of excuses

Whose to win if we know that it's not fair

Who would fight when it seems that no one cares

If somehow we could Wake Up!

Let us love (like we were children)

Make us feel (like we're still living)

in a world I know is burning to the ground

Give us time (to beat the system)

Make us find (what we've been missing)

In a world I know is burning to the ground

Let us love (like we were children)

Make us feel (like we were living)

in a world I know is burning to the ground

Leave your hurting on the road behind you. 

Let the wind go with you till the morning comes

Yeah your sorrow, no it can't save you. 

It won't answer for what you've done

 Let us love (like we were children)

Make us feel (like we were living)

in a world I know is burning to the ground

War

The Cave - Mumford and Sons

It's empty in the valley of your heart

The sun, it rises slowly as you walk
Away from all the fears
And all the faults you've left behind

The harvest left no food for you to eat
You cannibal, you meat-eater, you see
But I have seen the same
I know the shame in your defeat

But I will hold on hope
And I won't let you choke
On the noose around your neck

And I'll find strength in pain
And I will change my ways
I'll know my name as it's called again

Cause I have other things to fill my time
You take what is yours and I'll take mine
Now let me at the truth
Which will refresh my broken mind

So tie me to a post and block my ears
I can see widows and orphans through my tears
I know my call despite my faults
And despite my growing fears

But I will hold on hope

And I won't let you choke
On the noose around your neck

And I'll find strength in pain
And I will change my ways
I'll know my name as it's called again

So come out of your cave walking on your hands

And see the world hanging upside down
You can understand dependence
When you know the maker's hand

So make your siren's call
And sing all you want
I will not hear what you have to say

  Cause I need freedom now

And I need to know how

To live my life as it's meant to be

And I will hold on hope
And I won't let you choke
On the noose around your neck

And I'll find strength in pain
And I will change my ways
I'll know my name as it's called again

Mumford and Sons  "The Cave"

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