Coming Home

The brutal voice of violence
Will be silenced finally
And broken bones and mangled flesh
Will be set and fully healed
The violated victims will no longer be afraid
And the ones whose crimes have terrorised
Might bow the knee and pray
We’ll turn shotguns to shovels
And knives to garden shears
What was meant for mass destruction
Will transform to tools of peace
And the governments whose orders
Have oppressed and raped and killed
Will fall to face the judgment
While the celebration builds
Coming home to You, coming home to You
Life begins anew, all will be renewed
All the good we see
Is just a mirror to what will be
So let it all begin
Celebrate and sing because
The forgotten and abandoned
Will be honoured and embraced
The broken and rejected
Will have their tears wiped away
The lonely will have families
And the friendless will have friends
And those who seek asylum
Will find their home again
And the hopelessness of poverty
Will turn to hope again
As the desperate and the landless
Will have a stake to claim
And children won’t die
For a lack of things to eat
Cause everyone will have enough
As we share and eat the feast
Coming home to You
Coming home to You
Life begins anew
All will be renewed
All the good we see
is just a mirror to what will be
So let it all begin
Celebrate and sing because
All the tribes and nations
Will be gathered equally
And take joy in their differences
And learn new ways to be
And ‘us and them' will be transformed
As kindred become one
And all of those who’ve been oppressed
Will shine again like diamonds
The groaning of creation
Will turn to joyful song
As humankind begins to care
As it should have always done
And the healing of the earth
Will see us take our rightful place
Creation our cathedral
An eternal place of praise
Coming home to You
Coming home to You
Life begins anew
All will be renewed
All the good we see
is just a mirror to what will be
So let it all begin
Celebrate and sing because
The suffering of poverty
(Swallowed up, swallowed up)
The suffering of the lonely
(Swallowed up, swallowed up)
The suffering of slavery
(Swallowed up, swallowed up)
The shame of the guilty
(Swallowed up, swallowed up)
The suffering of addiction
(Swallowed up, swallowed up)
Painful afflictions
(Swallowed up, swallowed up)
Brutalising violence
(Swallowed up, swallowed up)
Death and dying
(Swallowed up, swallowed up)
Death will be swallowed up
(Swallowed up, swallowed up)
Death will be swallowed up
(Swallowed up, swallowed up)
Death will be swallowed up
(Swallowed up, swallowed up)
Life begins again,
So let it all begin right now
Coming home to You,
Coming home to You
Life begins anew,
All will be renewed
All the good we see
is just a mirror to what will be
So let it all begin
Celebrate and sing because