While we wait

While we wait the world keeps on turning.

While we wait lives flipped upside down.

While we wait our cities, they are burning.

While we wait and watch the fleeing drown.

Where will the love come from to take us 

to a better place than this?

A love to break the chains that hold us bound to sin and death?

A love to shock the anger, terrify the fear,

Convert us all to humanness, heartbeats strong and clear.

Where will the love come from to save us 

for a better world than this?

While we hope despair is taking over. 

While we hope depression has its way.

While we hope sadness keeps on risin’. 

While we hope our grief still fills the day.

Where will the love come from to take us to a better place than this?

A love to break the chains that hold us bound to sin and death?

A love to shock the anger, terrify the fear,

Converting us to humanness, heartbeats strong and clear.

Where will the love come from to save us for a better world than this? 

While we watch relationships are crumbling. 

While we watch mothers brace for pain.

While we watch fathers lose their dignity. 

While we watch children fail to gain.

We are waiting, we are hoping, we are watching.

Where will the love come from to take us to a better place than this?

A love to break the chains that hold us bound to sin and death?

A love to shock the anger, terrify the fear,

Converting us to humanness, heartbeats strong and clear.

Where will the love come from to save us for a better world than this?

Here comes the love, the love to save us, for a better world than this.

You can hear a rough recording of While we wait on my YouTube channel 

Text and music copyright(c)2015  Jonathan A Shively