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Redemption Day

Johnny Cash

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Redemption Day

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I've wept for those who suffer longBut how I weep for those who've goneInto rooms of grief and questioned wrongBut keep on killingIt's in the soul to feel such thingsBut weak to watch without speakingOh what mercy sadness bringsif God be willingThere is a trainThat's heading straight to heaven's gateTo heaven's gateAnd on the way, child and man and woman waitWatch and wait, for redemption dayFire rages in the streetsAnd swallows everything it meetsIt's just an image often seen on televisionCome leaders, come you men of greatLet us hear you pontificateYour many virtues laid to wasteAnd we aren't listeningWhat do you have for us today?Throw us a bone but save the plateOn why we waited til so lateWas there no oil to excavate?No riches in trade for the fate ofEvery person who died in hate?Throw us a bone, you men of greatThere is a trainthat's heading straight to heaven's gateTo heaven's gateAnd on the way, child and man and woman waitWatch and wait, for redemption dayIt's buried in the countrysideIt's exploding in the shells at nightIt's everywhere a baby criesFreedom. Freedom. FreedomFreedom. Freedom

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