Monday Music - Come, Lord, Quickly

Look at the headlines – another shooting downtown today,
Too many absent fathers, too many teenage runaways.
Under the table crooked politics in DC,
Handguns go to High School, sex and murder on TV.

So many homeless, so many starving in foreign lands,
Civil war and ethnic cleansing, abortion on demand.
Porno on the playground, an epidemic of STDs,
Doctor assisted suicide, reckless sexuality.

Caught in the spiral of our downward spin,
The whole world groans for Your returning.
When will your dawning end this night of sin?
My eyes look up and my heart’s filled with yearning, Jesus.

It's on the Nightline – on the cover of a magazine –
Terrorists bomb a shopping mall, blood on the silver screen.
Marital breakdown – another family torn in two;
Cocaine at the corner store, another military coup.

Caught in the spiral of our downward spin,
The whole world groans for Your returning.
When will your dawning end this night of sin?
My eyes look up and my heart is filled with yearning, Jesus.

Amen!  Amen!  Come Lord!
Even so, Lord come quickly!
Amen!  Amen!  Come Lord!
Even so, Lord come quickly!

“My Eyes Look Up” by Dave Burkum, from So Far To Go, © Copyright 1993 by Dave Burkum. LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD