Promise

the world is so very hard today
with people ready to snipe and snarl
can't we make it a little better
with some love to go aound

the people living in the world
have a lot to give
give them some time, a little less money
and see how well they'll live

my brothers and sisters the world over
i come to you with my heart in love,
i have no fame, i need no fortune
i'm just a brother with a broken heart

if you can speak this same old language
recorded in history to be true
if you can feel this heartbeat of another
pray then as i would with you

'almighty lord to you we write
this song is from our hearts
take this wound and wash us with it
for we need to feel each other in it

i wanna say that you are cool,
you are the mighty one
i wanna say that in you we trust
but this fighting is 'tween us

i wanna stand up and say, that
you are there, tis true
but we are so divided and so against each other
i'd probably be shot on the way to the pew

so god almighty i beg with yee
and my brothers and sisters in tow
look upon your child with scorn
but don't let her go with the flow

for if there's a battle to be fought
then prop me up in front,
and if theres a bullet for another, i'll take it
if you promise to be one with us'.