It Hit Home

[Verse 1]

No one admits they ever cry in public

Lately we all do because we must

We do because a man stands

At the bottom of a building

Looking for his brother's body in the dust

[Chorus]

It hit home

It still does

It hits home

[Verse 2]

It makes me feel a pain within my person

Like the breaking of a heart or of a bone

To think about that day and to imagine

Every moment of my neighbors

In that devastated place close to my own

[Chorus]

It hit home

It still does

It hits home

[Bridge]

I am no great patriot

I never wear the flag

And I can only sing the songs that I'm supposed to in a crowd

But if I travel to Chicago or just take the train downtown

I see the grace that's under pressure

It's what I report out loud

[Chorus]

It hit home

It still does

It hits home

[Verse 3]

People when they're hungry become crazy

If it's a baby or a nation we discuss

Anger turns to action turns to danger

We get mean and feel that living isn't worth much

It's either them or us

[Chorus]

It hit home

It still does

It hits home

[Bridge]

I am no great patriot

I never wear the flag

And I only sing the songs that I'm supposed to in a crowd

But if I travel to Chicago or just take the train downtown

I see the grace that's under pressure

It's what I report out loud

[Chorus]

It hit home

It still does

It hits home