Sad Song Lullaby (The God I Would Be)

Chared and smoking children lay lifeless on on dead mothers

Resting upon their chests no movement is found

These are the images that the child within me sees

Filled with anguish these scenes only play out horror

Dark figures dressed in white come to bring us home

Wailing into the night a sad song rocking the dead to sleep

So let the boy take the royal seat for once

Allow him to hold the scepter and cast out demands

For once we would have a ruler with compassion

And yet the iron fist of judgement would hold true

Cast now your crowns before thee and be set free

Give over you life and I will give you a new list of dreams

Things that are impossible to see but dwell all around us

I will show you now what kind of God I would be

Greatest of all the nations, a king among thieves

Humbly approach me with boldness in your tone

So I may look into your heart and know you're truely mine

A creation of another yet so deadfast in following my lead

But the murders still go on outside the palace walls

Seeing this, war will be conducted in a righteous way

The hammer of peace will fall after the wicked are slain

Lighting their bodies on fire we will use them to light the way

Lord of all who love me now, I am held up high

Not by guilt or that I would kill those who stood against me

But because I first showed a love that no one ever expected

Now as the blood runs black in the streets of madness

All will rise up in one voice and one heart

Long live the child king, long live the love he brings

Anointed now these people are for I am theirs and they are mine

A complex of perfection takes over as their minds dwell on me

Someone who came from nothing to set them all free

Even as the sad songs continue, at least look at one thing

Focus on what kind of ruler I would be

The kind that every servant would want to be in love with

Teach now this world to love and you've taught them to live

For by love we will conquer all, and there will be no more sad songs