Tag: Hezbollah

A hymn published in 1997 still pertinent in a world torn by war and carnage – with tune by John Kleinheksel

Lives like yours and mine, contorted – as we live in a world contorted by war and hatred, during a week remembering Hamas action of 7th October 2023 and living with Israel’s response, together with war and carnage in so many places on our planet.

1	Lives like yours and mine, contorted:
	Genocide has been reported,
	Wrong seems right, it's all distorted;
	Christ! What would you do?

2	Seeing babies starving, bleeding,
	Hearing mothers' desperate pleading,
	Would you wring your hands, unheeding?
	Christ! What would you do?

3	Watching buildings ruined, burning,
	Hearing tank tracks rumble, churning,
	Would you walk on by, not turning?
	Christ! What would you do?
	
4	Sensing fear that chills the city,
	Families threatened without pity,
	Would you pray your prayers, so pretty?
	Christ! What would you do?

5	We have seen it, all the sorrow,
	We will see the same tomorrow,
	Must this pattern always follow?
	Christ! What should we do?

Andrew E Pratt (born 1948)	
Words © 1997 Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England copyright@stainer.co.uk . Please include any reproduction for local church use on your CCL Licence returns. All wider and any commercial use requires prior application to Stainer & Bell Ltd. Originally published in Blinded by the Dazzle https://stainer.co.uk/shop/b840/ 
Metre: 8 8 8 5
Tune: THERE’S NO GREATER NAME THAN JESUS (Complete Mission Praise)


John R. Kleinheksel Sr has composed the following tune which may be used with acknowledgement. 
This tune is now to be acknowledged as Copyright Stainer & Bell Ltd address as for the text.
An audio file of the tune is at the link below.