Resurrection Band
INNOCENT
Rooster Crow
Resurrection Band - INNOCENT - © 1989
What did you say What did you do When they asked ya, who are you? Did you tell 'em, who you know? Did you hear that rooster crow? How will you answer? Where will you go? Have you heard that rooster crow?
Altar Of Pain
Resurrection Band - INNOCENT - © 1989
Condemn the heads of the ever-learning Blot out the pages in the sacred tongues Board up the windows where the candle's burning These are the days of the gifted young Listeng for wisdom, weeping bitter tears Eyes like like diamonds, hearts of steel Murdering truth for passionless gain The gifted youth, kneeling at the altar of pain Prepare the ground for the un-needed That dwell in the houses of the twisted limb Throw down the throne where the justice is sealed Set up the altar of the Aryan Listeng for wisdom, weeping bitter tears Eyes like like diamonds, hearts of steel Murdering truth for passionless gain The gifted youth, kneeling The high and mighty cry out "Treason!" If you challenge the lie that they call truth For every time there is a season And these are the days of the gifted youth Kneeling
The House Is On Fire
Resurrection Band - INNOCENT - © 1989
I smell smoke on the holy ground I feel the heat, somethin's comin' down I'm barely awake in this midnight hour Under the spell of a numbling power I can taste flames in the scorchin' light How I wish I was dreamin' Wrong an' not right How wish I was wrong, an' not right, right, right How can I hesitate It's gettin' harder to breathe In the grey smoke hanging Suffocating me The house is on fire The walls are alive in this red-hot blaze Shout to the sleepers throught the terminal haze As the sparks fly up and the flames reach higher Call me what you will but I ain't no liar The house is on fire!
80,000 Underground
Resurrection Band - INNOCENT - © 1989
Bones beneath the shovel's blade That's what the radio said Years ago a pay-off made Build a mall on top of the dead 80,000 Undergound 80,000 not a sound 80,000 nameless souls Brothers, sisters of us all A mother in her cotton dress A little baby taken in distress A hobo with a kindly face There was a daughter of a southern slave Bulging wallets, empty hearts The walking dead push shopping carts What price human dignity? Betrayed because of poverty
Fiend Or Foul
Resurrection Band - INNOCENT - © 1989
I beat the dead, they don't fight back They have no need, they have no lack They bear the marks of my attack I beat the dead, they don't react I rob the poor, they don't mind I take whatever I happend to find It's never much at any one time I rob the poor, it's not a crime Call me fiend, call me foul Throw me to the dogs that bite and howl Before you point your finger or cry an empty tear Buy yourself an alibi, get yourself a mirror I kill the children before they born As their little feet begin to form Don't buy them shoes, they won't be worm I kill the children, I am not scorned
Where Roses Grow
Resurrection Band - INNOCENT - © 1989
Empty promises, that were etched in stone Scattered by the wind to places I have known All the burning lamps by the window panes Lit for their return, but they never came I lose myself in deep regret Still I hear a voice that I can't forget Says: we will run where roses grow, our feet unbound at last Laugh as morning dawns, the night forever passed See the face of glory, feel the river flow Hear the voice of God, and run where roses grow Fading hope is gathered as the sky grows dim Somewhere it's raining, but it's drought within Out across the desert, was it fate or was it chance? I saw clouds approaching where I took my stance Hear the thunder rolling - can you hear the horn? I'm climbing Jacob's ladder - up through the storm Stand with me at the Mercy Seat With mounds of ashes spread about my feet You know who I am, all I think I know See it in the marrow, buried deep in the bone How is there no anger in the words I hear? Only love and mercy, erasing every fear
Right On Time
Resurrection Band - INNOCENT - © 1989
Your love was right on time I remember when I was young Swayed in the grass of an autumn sun I'd feel the wind upon my face Before it blew to another place But I've grown older since the magic of those days Forgotten how the breezes make the meadows play Your love was right on time Somethin' tells me I'm not alone Travellin' down this lonesome road I feel sometimes that I could cry Not knowin' the reasons why Then He told me I was losin' all control Then He told me I could lose my very soul I knew I coul not make it on my own Then you came along and made me whole Your love was right on time Seasons passin' as they will Fields are mown and the the ground lies still Now in sorrow it comes to mind Left more than youth and fields behind Now in mercy it comes to mind Your love was right on time
Child Of The Blues
Resurrection Band - INNOCENT - © 1989
I grew up in a welfare state Where the winters were cold And the checks came late With hand-medown clothes And a hole in my heart It seemed nothin' could fill A child of the blues Mamma was lonely She left us at night She said "You be good!" An' locked door tight But I couldn't sleep For wonderin' if she would return 'Cause sometimes you lose Mama was cryin' When the sheriff came in Like bein' on welfare Is some kinda sin All of your things Tossed out in the street wish I knew what to do But it ain't no use They said that we're lazy Ingorant poor We get there too late They locked up the door The shelter is warm But it sure ain't no home Is this payin' your dues? Child of the blues
Laughing Man
Resurrection Band - INNOCENT - © 1989
Laughter in the hall of mirrors Weeping at the backstage door Take your pick, 'cause I have mine I'm sick and tired and bored See the laughing man Cynic's mask in hand Bend straight paths, by careless force Pollute love's river, at the source Hope is a joke, I play the clown I'm gonna shoot up the whole downtown Lotta talk about love, where it is? Show me real life, I wanna kiss it
Bargain
Resurrection Band - INNOCENT - © 1989
I'd gladly lose me to find You I'd gladly give up all I have To find You, I'd suffer anything and be glad I'll pay any price just to get You I'll work all my life, yes, I will To win You, I'd stand naked, stoned and stabbed I'll call that a bargain, the best I ever had I'll gladly lose me to find You Gladly give up all I got To get You, I'm gonna run and never stop I'll pay any price just to win You To find You, I'm gonna drown an unsung man I call that a bargain, the best I ever had I sit lookin' round I look at my face in the mirror I know I'm worth nothing, without You In life one an' one don't make two One an' one make one An' I'm lookin' for that free ride to me I'm lookin' for You
Great God In Heaven
Resurrection Band - HOSTAGE - © 1984
There's a great God in heaven Great God in heaven There's a great God in heaven An' nodoby can deny An' nobody can deny Well He got the book of judgement Hell 'an death are in His hand He knows the name of Moses Took him to the promised land Now the heavens shake and tremble At the coming of the King Every knee shall bow and tongue confess When Jesus comes again that The Spirit is my witness My name is on the roll And sure as hell is a fiery furnace I ain't gonna go