Redemption Day Lyrics - American Vi: Ain't No Grave - Johnny Cash

I've wept for those who suffer long 

But how I weep for those who've gone 

In rooms of grief and questioned wrong 

But keep on killing 

It's in the soul to feel such things 

But weak to watch without speaking 

Oh, what mercy sadness brings 

If God be willing 

There is a train that's heading straight 

To heaven's gate, to heaven's gate 

And on the way child and man and woman wait 

Watch and wait for redemption day 

Fire rages in the streets 

And swallows everything it meets 

It's just an image often seen on television 

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Come leaders, come you men of great 

Let us hear you pontificate 

Your many virtues laid to waste 

And we aren't listening 

There is a train that's heading straight 

To heaven's gate, to heaven's gate 

And on the way child and man and woman wait 

Watch and wait for redemption day 

What do you have for us today? 

Throw us a bone but save the plate 

Oh, why we waited 'til so late 

Was there no oil to excavate? 

No riches in trade for the fate 

Of every person who died in hate 

Throw us a bone, you men of great 

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There is a train that's heading straight 

To heaven's gate, to heaven's gate 

And on the way child and man and woman wait 

Watch and wait for redemption day 

It's buried in the countryside 

Exploding in the shells at night 

It's everywhere a baby cries 

Freedom, freedom, freedom