I've wept for those who suffer long But how I weep for those who've goneIn rooms of grief and question wrong But keep on killingIt's in the soul to feel such things But weak to watch without speakingOh, what mercy sadness brings If God be willingThere is a train that's heading straight To heaven's gate, to heaven's gateAnd on the way, child and man and woman wait Watch and wait for redemption dayFire rages in the streets And swallows everything it meetsIt's just an image often seen on television Come leaders, come ye men of greatLet us hear you pontificate Your many virtues laid to wasteAnd we aren't listening There is a train that's heading straightTo heaven's gate, to heaven's gate And on the way, child and man and woman waitWatch and wait for redemption day What do you have for us today?Throw us a bone, but save the plate Oh, why we waited till so late?Was there no oil to excavate No riches in tradeFor the fate of every person who died in hate?Throw us a bone, ye men of great There is a train that's heading straightTo heaven's gate, to heaven's gate And on the way, child and man and woman waitWatch and wait for redemption day It's buried in the countrysideExploding in the shells of night It's everywhere, baby criesFreedom, freedom, freedomLet us hear you pontificate Your many virtues laid to wasteAnd we aren't listening There is a train that's heading straightTo heaven's gate, to heaven's gate And on the way, child and man and woman waitWatch and wait for redemption day What do you have for us today?