What about my daughter?
What about my wife?
What about the plans we made together
For a perfect life?
What about my mother
Who’s living out her years alone?
What about the people in this country?
What about OUR OWN?
No one ever taught me
About the world on the other side
My father’s first and only lesson
Was to be a fearless man of pride
Now my only son is next of kin
And he’s changing with the tide
Forgotten all our history
And abandoned all his pride
Oh Father, hear my prayer
What more do you want from me?
Every week I worship in Your House
Forget not my family
Oh Father, won’t you hear my prayer?
Won’t you help my son to see
To help a foreign family
Is to welcome the enemy
What about our freedoms?
My bearing right to arms?
Illegal drug cartels and trafficking
That bring our great country much harm?
What about the homelessness?
No-good thugs and sick junkies?
What of pregnant teenage atheists?
There’s no more room for refugees
No one ever taught me then
About religion from the other side
All I’ve ever known of Us and Them
Is that Our Truth begets Their lies
So, here we are divided left and right
No means to see an end
The talking heads with empty nothingness
Float like feathers with the newest trend
Oh Father, are you there?
You’ve made a mockery of me
I’ve spent a lifetime praying in Your House
And all for naught, how can this be?
Oh Father, is my son not wrong?
Was your good book just a lie?
Was the pride I built an empire on
A sin too great to rectify?
All I do is pray for justice
That the violence will decrease
All I do is pray they stay away
And leave us all in peace
All I do is pray for sinners
That the gays will finally see
All I do is pray they fade away
That our children remain clean
All I do is pray for safety
For taller walls to keep them out
All I do is pray the terror away
All I do is pray
All I do is pray
All I do
All I do
All I do
Written By: Michael Angel
