Innocent Man Lyrics

How long, how long
are you asking me to stay
I cannot stand
to watch you kneel today
I saw your hope
and turned my face away
from you
Under her skirt
I see the nation's pain
all caked with dirt
she crossed her legs in shame
how can you hurt
a man who knows your name?
it's true

I cannot I cannot
kill an innocent -
Eleanor Eleanor
put the gun in my -
I cannot I cannot
kill an innocent man
How wrong, how wrong
it is to let us guess
which god is real
what faith would suit us best?
oh, god of peace
we've been trying to impress
are you alive?
are you alive?
and if so, why?
If you say,
I believe it now, what we got we gave away
holy god,
that we have failed
we killed your carpenter with nails
in the end,
when the fire comes, burning up the souls we spend
is it worth
what we have paid?