The Kingdom Has Already Come - Iris DeMent

I stopped in the church to pray

It was the middle of the day

And I don’t even know if I believe in God

But I laid my soul on the table

And left that place believing I was able

To pull back the curtain old fears had drawn

I was out on the fourth of July

When I saw those kids, and just had to cry

The whole town was blazing in the summer’s heat

But out in front of a row of rundown shacks

They had that fire hydrant uncapped

Baptizing their bodies right there in the street

There’s a tree outside my window

It sings when wind blows

I’ve got water and fire

I know sorrow, I feel desire

And could it be that the kingdom has already come

We all see good or bad in everything that we have

But life is waiting just behind that veil

If this will be loved and that will be hated

The soul is left to struggle segregated

Trapped in the harbor too weighed down to sail

There’s a tree outside my window

It sings when wind blows

I’ve got water and fire

I know sorrow, I feel desire

And could it be that the kingdom has already come

And could it be that the kingdom has already come