Citizens - Jon Guerra

I have a heart full of questions

Quieting all my suggestions

What is the meaning of Christian

In this American life?

I’m feeling awfully foolish

Spending my life on a message

I look around and I wonder

Ever if I heard it right

Coming to you 'cause I’m confused

Coming to you 'cause I feel used

Coming to weep while I’m waiting

Tell me you won’t make me go

I need to know there is justice

That it will roll in abundance

And that you’re building a city

Where we arrive as immigrants

And you call us citizens

And you welcome us as children home

You were alone and rejected

Misunderstood and detested

You gave it all, didn’t hold back

You even gave up your life

How can we call ourselves Christians

Saying that love is a tension

Between the call of the cross and

Between the old party line?

Coming to you for the mothers

Who are all running for cover

There is a flood from their weeping

Tell me you won’t make them go

I need to know there is justice

That it will roll in abundance

And that you’re building a city

Where we arrive as immigrants

And you call us citizens

And you welcome us as children home

There is a man with a family

He has a wife and a baby

He broke the law just to save them

Working for three bucks an hour

Truly you said we were equal

Everyone’s heart is deceitful

Everyone born is illegal

When love is the law of the land

Coming to you for the hungry

Eating the scraps of this country

Didn’t you swear you would feed them?

Tell me you won’t make them go

I need to know there is justice

That it will roll in abundance

And that you’re building a city

Where we arrive as immigrants

And you call us citizens

And you welcome us as children home

There is a wolf who is ranting

All of the sheep, they are clapping

Promising power and protection

Claiming the Christ who was killed

Killed by a common consensus

Everyone screaming «Barabbas»

Trading their God for a hero

Forfeiting Heaven for Rome

Coming to you 'cause I’m angry

Coming to you 'cause I’m guilty

Coming to you 'cause you’ve promised

To leave the flock for the one

I need to know there is justice

That it will roll in abundance

And that you’re building a city

Where we arrive as immigrants

And you call us citizens

And welcome us as children home

Where we arrive as immigrants

And you call us citizens

And welcome us as children home

Is there a way to love always?

Living in enemy hallways

Don’t know my foes from my friends and

I don’t know my friends anymore

Power has several prizes

Handcuffs can come in all sizes

Love has a million disguises

But winning is simply not one