Heavy Heart, Heavy Hands
Album: Bring Me Sunshine
By: Sunday Lane
By: Sunday Lane
Duration
3:55
Genres
Description
I was challenged to write a song about social justice for a Pepperdine University songwriter showcase. The words to Heavy Heart, Heavy Hands came to me almost immediately. The song personifies justice traveling through neighborhoods in our own town, and desiring to fix the pain he sees. His heart is heavy for these suffering people, but like many of us, his hands are heavy and he can do nothing.
Lyrics
"Heavy Heart, Heavy Hands" Justice comes to the back of my door With his held high and his shirt all torn I see a sadness deep in his eyes As he starts to pray, has to stop to cry He takes my hand down a lonely road Past the broken fence into a broken home I hear the parents start to scream, they're fighting Got two daughters in the bedroom crying Justice says they won't let him in He's got a heavy heart and heavy hands I'm not hating on Africa I wanna help I know, just don't know how to show 'Cuz money can't fix a broken home And only prayer can heal a broken soul If the good Lord wants me to go Then the good Lord knows I will go I hear the parents start to scream, they're fighting Got two daughters in the bedroom crying Justice says they won't let him in He's got a heavy heart and heavy hands Justice got his hands all tied He said Jesus Christ is a friend of mine Someday the world will see the light But when will they see the light? I was born in a loving home With a big ol' room I could call my own Who's to say about those who don't Get no love as they grow old Who can save them from the freezing cold Or the striking hand, or the broken home? I hear the parents start to scream, they're fighting Got two daughters in the bedroom crying Justice says they won't let him in He's got a heavy heart and heavy hands He's got a heavy heart and heavy hands
