Lamentation

         Chorus

God in Heaven, God in Heaven
    Hear my song:
My spirit aches, my mind is torn
And when I should rejoice, I mourn
A world gone very wrong.

God in Heaven, God in Heaven
    Hear me pray:
My body breaks, my city burns
If this is what devotion earns
Then let me go astray.

My enemy builds mansions of gold.
He fills his day with drunken celebration
    Too galling to behold.
    Where is his calamity!?

My family is scattered abroad.
My children toil at menial employment
    And love no living god.
    Where, then, is my victory!?

God in Heaven, God in Heaven
    I am lost:
The night is dark, your Voice is still.
Must I who glorified your Will
Pay such a dreadful cost?