Nearer my God to thee I sing I've got to tell someone what is happening This hole in my heart is getting bigger by the hour And I can't find the cure In the stems or the petals of this poisonous flower They keep trying to shove down my throat Oh, oh My soul, why they put you here? If you weren't supposed to make a sound Your love lies quietly, the shroud Where weapons fire underground And do their killing silently Violently, ooh There was a child born beneath the trees She was born to be free With Jupiter rising in God's new horizon She runs through the night Gathering stars and light, singing Oh, oh My soul, why they put you here? If you weren't supposed to make a sound Your love lies dying in the shroud Where weapons fire underground And do their killing silently Violently, ooh I said I would do I said I would do Anything for you