How Much Longer

This song may help us put some words to our longing as we cry out for God’s Kingdom to come in all its fullness, with welcome and justice and love for all.

How Much Longer
(https://commonhymnal.com/songs/how-much-longer)
Common Hymnal

In the silence, tell me, can you hear
The voices calling out, of the disappeared?
Broken spirits, dormant dreams
How much longer will justice sleep?

When a lawless heart is the voice we're hearing
We need freedom, freedom, freedom

How much longer 'til we sing a new song?
How much longer 'til we sing a new song?

Hearts of saints and sinners too
Both have walked away from the destitute
Call them back to sing as one
A song of freedom now, a song to overcome

When a lawless heart is the voice we're hearing
We need freedom, freedom, free-ee-dom

How much longer 'til we sing a new song?
How much longer 'til we sing a new song?

Come on brother, lay your weapons down
Where the river of justice rolls and all oppression drowns
It flows with life, love and truth
May the old be washed away and hearts be made anew
Come on brother, lay your weapons down
Where the river of justice rolls and all oppression drowns
It flows with life, love and truth
May the old be washed away and hearts be made anew