Iris DeMent - The Kingdom Has Already Come lyrics

I stopped in the church to pray, It was the middle of the day And I don't even know if I believe in God But I laid my soul on the table And left that place believing I was able To pull back the curtain old fears had drawn I was out on the fourth of July When I saw those kids, and ust had to cry The whole town was blazing in the summer's heat But out in front of a row of rundown shacks They had that fire hydrant uncapped Baptizing their bodies right there in the street There's a tree outside my window It sings when wind blows I've got water and fire I know sorrow, I feel desire And could it be that the kingdom has already come We all see good or bad in everything that we have But life is waiting just behind that veil If this will be loved and that will be hated The soul is left to struggle segregated Trapped in the harbor too weighed down to sail There's a tree outside my window It sings when wind blows I've got water and fire I know sorrow, I feel desire And could it be that the kingdom has already come And could it be that the kingdom has already come