Wartime Prayers

[Verse 1]

Prayers offered in times of peace are silent conversations

Appeals for love or love's 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

[Chorus]

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 genius 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

[Verse 2]

Times are hard, it's a hard time

But everybody knows all about hard times

The thing is, what are you going to 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

[Chorus]

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 genius 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

[Outro]

A mother murmurs in twilight sleep

And draws her babies closer

With hush-a-byes for sleepy eyes

And kisses on the shoulder

To drive away despair

She sends a wartime prayer