Pendulum -

I been walking a tightrope between fact and fiction I been wrestling with

demons in small bottled prisons

I been talking with sinners who claim to be Christian I been shouting at

leaders who claim to be listening

And the pendulum swings from the left to the right and momentum increases the

need for the fight

It’s a moment of blindness in a lifetime of sight And I am lost somewhere the

middle

I saw a president blind to the needs of his people I saw a camel that passed

through the eye of a needle

I saw a group of old men whose money was evil I saw a cross breaking free from

the cage of a steeple

I saw beggars and cripples dying in squalor I saw a son whose sins had exceeded

his father

I saw a nation of sleepers whose dreams were forgotten And a bushel of apples

from a tree that was rotten

And the pendulum swings from the left to the right

Momentum increases the need for the fight

Like a blindfold when its time to walk towards the light

And I am caught somewhere in the middle

I heard the echo of suffering in the valley of laughter I heard the rumble of

earthquakes far under the water

I heard a court jester whose forked tongue was twisted Who told us of dangers

that never existed

I heard voices that claimed to be moral and righteous Whose lies and deceit

were all dark and contagious

I heard talk of a country that valued its freedom But when I protested I was

arrested and beaten

And the pendulum swings from the left to the right

As momentum increases the weight and the height

But if nobody’s listening, is anyone right?

And I can’t seem to find the key to the riddle

I met a young woman with a baby inside her I looked but there wasn’t a safe

place to hide her

I met an old man with a face like a mirror His showed me his sadness so I could

see clearer

I met an arrogant leader who robs us and cheats us He pretends that his orders

come directly from Jesus

When he sends out our children to strange foreign soil To kill for our right to

monopolize oil

I’m a raising my voice ‘gainst the house of derision That murders our freedom

with short-sighted vision

I’ll sing a new song about civilization And the palace of wisdom and the death

of a nation

I’ll lift up the veil that’s hiding the holy And remind all the people that

change happens slowly

I’ll scream out a name to the echoes of Heaven And pray that the world don’t

end up where its heading

And the pendulum swings from the left to the right

As momentum decreases the end is in sight

There’s a lunatic handling our future tonight

And I am lost somewhere in the middle