for what's
a fortress worth
and our defences
sure -
faith like a mighty
army,
onward generations
counting,
our defence is
sure.
a safe stronghold
is our God,
and our defence
is sure,
where gold and
bullion's safe
our onward generation's
counted
all the quantum
costs of grace
oh safe as churches
do we stand, and
lift young arms to pray,
a single gun man
kills a virgin daughter
many fall and
do not die.
friends fall,
one to the left
of me
one to the right,
death shall not
come nigh me
in this deadly
strife.
age shall have
no sting now
where the gentle
noseless icon,
powerless to stay,
weeps tears of
stone unbroken,
powerless to pray.
daughters who have
dwelt by our side,
pushED their hips
at us plead
just to go out
for a while,
up to the church
at need
our sons who have
grown so tall,
safe as churches,
go off up the
hill
to pray
like a mighty fortress,
our defence is
sure
yet fall
yet fall,
yet fall again,
our mighty sons
for god.
