Reprisal

After leaving sweating bricks and rotten pus behind We agreed our Moses was not blind But then standing at desolate sea, we come to find The army was galloping in our mind If only we could be still, and see clear before us The impossible sea to defeat What strength was made from faith's plain chorus What pushed the water from our feet. After circling the desert of worship, the cold wilderness We came to a mountain high as fear Stopped, ate, played, and fumbled our righteousness When no Moses from its peak did stare If only we had heard, the voice, the eternal word The fountain of the bitter emptiness Of spring and vision gone. The fire weld us as a herd and Jordon wash again our filthiness. And then we disembark plane or ship to find at last This aint the promiseland we need The King saw the mountain dreaming free at last While children bombed to splinters bleed.