Have We Heard?

Look at all the lonely people
So the Beatles say
And where are we today?
Have we seen the lonely people?
Have we listened to the cries?
Do we point them to the steeple,
To the one it signifies?

So many prophets have prophesied
So many watchmen on towers cried
Have we heeded their desperate cries?

Do we find ourselves asleep in the light
Have we simply given up the fight
Can we rouse ourselves to do what’s right
Or just resign our souls in this sinful plight?

Look at all the lonely people
So the Beatles say
And where are we today?
Have we seen the lonely people?
Have we listened to the cries?
Do we show them to the steeple,
To the one it signifies?

Looking through rose-coloured stained glass windows
Have we seen the slowly dying souls
Can our laziness allow all those
To lie out there and die in their throes

Look at all the lonely people
So the Beatles say
And where are we today?
Have we seen the lonely people?
Have we listened to the cries?
Do we show them to the steeple,
To the one it signifies?

Tell me why are we so isolated
If to those in Christ we’re related
Why is our Christian love debated?
Our witness has become so jaded

Look at all the lonely people
So the Beatles say
And where are we today?
Have we seen the lonely people?
Have we listened to the cries?
Do we show them to the steeple,
To the one it signifies?

Jesus said to love one another
Poor unsaved, enemy or brother
Can we really love God our Father
If we can’t even love each other?

So many prophets have prophesied
So many watchmen on towers cried
Have we heeded their desperate cries?
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Thanks to Keith Green, Petra, & Servant as prophets that have gone before, as messengers of God to wake a sleeping church.