From the recording Jerusalem Under One Sky
Track 5 – If God Could Speak (The questions we never ask.)
Instead of people speaking to God, imagine God speaking to us:
"I heard every prayer...
Why did you stop listening to one another?"
This becomes the emotional centerpiece of the album.
Message: Love is greater than pride.
Lyrics
[IF GOD COULD SPEAK]
(Track 5 – The City That Waits)
[Intro]
[Solo piano... soft cello... distant strings]
What if...
For just one moment...
The whole world grew quiet...
Long enough...
To listen.
---
[Verse 1]
What if every voice fell still
Every mountain...
Every hill
Every nation laid down pride
For just one moment...
Side by side
What if heaven broke the night
Not with thunder...
But with light
And one gentle voice
Called every name...
Exactly the same.
---
[Pre-Chorus]
Would we finally hear...
What we've been missing...
All along?
---
[Chorus]
What if God could speak...
Would He ask us
Why we've built so many walls?
Would He wonder
Why we let our brothers fall?
"I've heard every prayer...
Every whispered plea...
Why did you stop...
Listening...
To one another?"
---
[Verse 2]
Would He ask about the child
Who only dreamed
Of running wild?
Would He ask about the tears
Still falling
After all these years?
Would He ask us
Who we loved...
Instead of asking
Who was right?
Would He measure us
By mercy...
Instead of every fight?
---
[Pre-Chorus]
Would His greatest question...
Be the one...
We never asked ourselves?
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[Chorus]
What if God could speak...
Would He recognize
The world we've made?
Would He smile
At every hand we gave?
"I gave you hope...
I gave you choice...
Why did pride...
Become...
The loudest voice?"
---
[Bridge]
Maybe heaven...
Never needed
Another army.
Maybe faith...
Was never measured
By the wars we won.
Maybe love...
Has always been
The language
We forgot...
To speak.
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[Final Chorus – Key Change]
What if God could speak...
Maybe He would simply say...
"Love one another...
Before it's too late."
Every prayer...
Every song...
Every heart...
Still belongs.
"I've never stopped...
Listening...
To you...
Now...
Will you listen...
To each other?"
---
[Outro]
So sing it...
Blue Wave Revival Band...
Sing louder than anger...
Sing stronger than fear...
Sing until compassion...
Becomes the song...
The whole world...
Learns to hear.
[Soft piano fades... single cello note... silence.]