Wartime Prayers

                Prayers offered..

       are silent                           Appeals for love

     Or loves..             in private invocations

      But all that is changed now                   Gone like a memory from

the day..         People hungry for the voice of God

Hear lunatics..                   Wartime prayers

       Wartime..           In every language spoken,

    For every family scattered and broken.

     Because you...
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    cannot..   halfway..      rid my..  cleanse..    feel..
    pretend..  genius..
    tap..      little..

    Times are hard..   but..   all about hard times

The thing is, what..            ..you cry?                  and try to

 muscle through?   And try to.. but when the

wounds are..           and it's all that we can bear,

        We..    selves..   pray   -aay       -ers.

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    cannot..   halfway..      rid my..  cleanse..    feel..
    pretend..  genius..
    tap..      little..

    A mother..    twilight sleep

       With..                  for..               and kisses

  on her   shoulders                     to drive

 away  despair                         she..    wartime   prayer
Lyrics:
Prayers offered in times of peace are silent conversations,
Appeals for love or loves release, in private invocations.
But all that is changed now,
Gone like a memory from the day before the fires.
People hungry for the voice of God
Hear lunatics and liars
Wartime prayers, wartime prayers
In every language spoken,
For every family scattered and broken.
Because you cannot walk with the holy,
If you're just a halfway decent man.
But I don't pretend that I'm a mastermind
With a genious marketing plan.
I'm trying to tap into some wisdom,
Even a little drop would do.
I want to rid my heart of envy
And cleanse my soul of rage
Before I feel.
Times are hard, hard times,
But everybody knows all about hard times.
The thing is, what are you gonna do?
Will you cry?
And try to muscle through?
And try to rearrange your stuff?
But when the wounds are deep enough,
And it's all that we can bear,
We wrap ourselves in prayer.
Because you cannot walk with the holy,
If you're just a halfway decent man.
But I don't pretend that I'm a mastermind
With a genious marketing plan.
I'm trying to tap into some wisdom,
Even a little drop would do.
I want to rid my heart of envy
And cleanse my soul of rage
Before I'm through.
A mother murmurs in twilight sleep
And draws her babies closer.
With hush-a-bies for sleepy eyes,
And kisses on the shoulder.
To drive away despair
She sends a wartime prayer.