What is worse, knowing that there are those who suffer, or knowing that those who cause their pain, know they're causing the pain yet continue to choose to do so?
"Oh what mercy sadness brings
If God be willing "- perhaps if such people could feel the pain of others, feel sadness for them, they wouldn't continue to choose to hurt them.
The chorus is pretty obvious.
The nightly news blasts us with so many horrific images of disasters and violent crimes and such that we just become numb to it and go on with our life. Even if we have great leaders, no one bothers to listen to what they say.
We get the scraps off their plates. She questions the motives of her politicians.
The last line is about a country in a state of war, a new generation, and the grand ideology that we are taught in history classes- FREEDOM
What is worse, knowing that there are those who suffer, or knowing that those who cause their pain, know they're causing the pain yet continue to choose to do so?
"Oh what mercy sadness brings If God be willing "- perhaps if such people could feel the pain of others, feel sadness for them, they wouldn't continue to choose to hurt them.
The chorus is pretty obvious.
The nightly news blasts us with so many horrific images of disasters and violent crimes and such that we just become numb to it and go on with our life. Even if we have great leaders, no one bothers to listen to what they say.
We get the scraps off their plates. She questions the motives of her politicians.
The last line is about a country in a state of war, a new generation, and the grand ideology that we are taught in history classes- FREEDOM