Until We Have Faces

Hear our cries

Hear our plea

Turn their heads

Make them see

Different people

From different places

Plead with them

Until we have faces

Our blood speaks up from the ground

Justice for me is not to be found

Because my father was a wicked man

Because I wasn't a part of your plan

Because my life means less to you

Than your

peace and

comfort and 

conscience too

The cries of thousands all join mine

In this day and age 

and throughout time

Those who were treated as less than human

Because they were 

Black or

Jewish or

Woman

Discarded and

thrown out without a thought

Mocked and 

Tortured and 

Sold and 

Bought

And here we are in this cycle again

With nothing learned from our history of sin

The same excuses to quiet the masses

The same lie that anything passes

Calling something by something it's not

They'll never know, we'll never be caught 

So I need a voice for when I can't speak

Some one to stand up and defend us, the weak

Hear our cries

Hear our plea

Turn their heads

Make them see

Different people

From different places

Plead with them

Until we have faces