[06:24.00]We left our home by dark of night
[06:24.00]Joseph and my boy and I
[06:24.00]When all the gunmen were asleep
[06:24.00]We slipped into the forest
[06:24.00]We left everything behind
[06:24.00]Joseph and my boy and I
[06:24.00]Took only what we had to keep
[06:24.00]And the hopes they would not find us
[06:24.00]We prayed our prayers, we broke our bread
[06:24.00]With others who had even less
[06:24.00]Till finally all we had were dreams
[06:24.00]And we hoped that they would fill us
[06:24.00]We lived on roots and the bark of trees
[06:24.00]Joseph and my boy and me
[06:24.00]Drank the water from the stream
[06:24.00]And hoped it would not kill us
[06:24.00]A man offered a change of luck
[06:24.00]All we had for a cargo truck
[06:24.00]With fifty others in the back
[06:24.00]They shut the door behind us
[06:24.00]It got so hot we could not breathe
[06:24.00]Joseph and my boy and me
[06:24.00]When we arrived, the sky was black
[06:24.00]That's where I buried Joseph
[06:24.00]The river stole away my shoes
[06:24.00]The soles of both my feet were bruised
[06:24.00]My boy lay silent in my arms
[06:24.00]His dreams were deep and soundless
[06:24.00]The day was long, the sun was high
[06:24.00]A hammer on an anvil sky
[06:24.00]By the wall I fell and cried
[06:24.00]For death was all around us
[06:24.00]He found me there where I had slipped
[06:24.00]But handcuffed tied around my wrists
[06:24.00]Shackles tied around my legs
[06:24.00]As if I could escape you
[06:24.00]And since I could not hold my babe
[06:24.00]You took my only boy away
[06:24.00]And though I plead and though I beg
[06:24.00]You won’t say where he's gone to
[06:24.00]I'm tired now, my eyes are dry
[06:24.00]There’s only me alone tonight
[06:24.00]In a land I thought would be
[06:24.00]Ours if we could make it
[06:24.00]A land that welcomes strangers in
[06:24.00]A land that beckoned like a friend
[06:24.00]If I had the chance again
[06:24.00]I'd rather die than take him
[06:24.00]The holy family got away
[06:24.00]A simpler time, a simpler place
[06:24.00]And Egypt stretched out it's great hand
[06:24.00]To welcome them with mercy
[06:24.00]Now Joseph's dead out on the road
[06:24.00]My boy is gone and I don't know
[06:24.00]Where he is or where I am
[06:24.00]With every breath, it hurts me
[06:24.00]And you who stood at your great gates
[06:24.00]Watched us as we met our fate
[06:24.00]Then took our pride and stole our babes
[06:24.00]You will one day die of something
[06:24.00]But as you rest your weary head
[06:24.00]Your family close around your bed
[06:24.00]May your thoughts all fly instead
[06:24.00]To the ones who you gave nothing
[06:24.00]The naked one, the starving child
[06:24.00]Who crawled the final brutal miles
[06:24.00]Through blood and filth and rock and wild
[06:24.00]In the hopes of only living
[06:24.00]May the pain within you dwell
[06:24.00]And may it follow you to hell
[06:24.00]All alone in a lonely cell
[06:24.00]Forever unforgiven
[06:24.00]May the pain within you dwell
[06:24.00]And may it follow you to hell
[06:24.00]All alone in a lonely cell
[06:24.00]Forever unforgiven