Lyrics

Promised Land

Newspaper says I should be offended
In every story that I read
By every quote that gets reported
By every image that I see

How many years must come and go
Till sins of fathers are freed from a soul?

Would you beg forgiveness for what you didn’t do?
Should wrongs of others for your account accrue?

And for me sometimes this world is so confusing
It shouldn’t be this hard for me to understand
Why are there sides that we all must be choosin’
Cause seems to me from what I see
This don’t look nothin’ like the promised land

Wish I could box up all hate and anger
Across the entire human race
I’d dig a big hole where it gets buried
Yea buried deep without a trace

And for me sometimes this world is so confusing
It shouldn’t be this hard for me to understand
Why are there sides that we all must be choosin’
Cause seems to me from what I see
This don’t look nothin’ like the promised land

Somebody said on the day we’re born
That we all begin to die
It’s not a view which I subscribe to
I prefer that we’re livin’ life

But for me sometimes this world is so confusing
It shouldn’t be this hard for me to understand
Why are there sides that we all must be choosin’
Cause seems to me from what I see
This don’t look nothin’ like the promised land

Yea seems to me from what I see
This don’t look nothin’ like the promised land