I stopped in the church to pray,
It was the middle of the day
And I don't even know if I believe in God
But I laid my soul on the table
And left that place believing I was able to pull back
the curtain my old fears had drawn
I was out on the fourth of July when I saw
those kids I just had to cry
The whole town was blazing
in the summer's heat
But out in front of a row of run down shacks they
had that fire hydrant uncapped
Baptizing their bodies right there in
the street
There's a tree outside my window
It sings when wind blows
I've got water and fire I know
sorrow I feel de sire
And could it be that the kingdom
has already come
We all see good and bad in everything
that we have
But life is waiting just behind that veil
if this will be loved and that will be hated
The soul is left to struggle
segregated
Trapped in the harbor too weighted
down to sail
There's a tree outside my window
It sings when wind blows
I've got water and fire
I know sorrow I feel de sire
And could it be that the kingdom
has already come
We all see good and bad in
everything that we have