(originally by Sheryl Crow)



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 you 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
For redemption day


What do you have for us today?
Throw us a bone but save the plate

On 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 hate
Throw us a bone, you men of great


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


It's buried in the countryside
It's exploding in the shells at night
It's everywhere a baby cries

Freedom
Freedom
Freedom