I've wept for those who suffer long But how I weep for those who've gone
In rooms of grief and question 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 ye 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 Oh, why we waited till 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, ye 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
Exploding in the shells of night It's everywhere, baby cries
Freedom, freedom, freedom
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?