God Is a Strangely Absent Father - Assemblage 23

Depend on me

And I will let you down

Repeatedly

You’d think you’d have learned by now

In your hour of need

I’m nowhere to be found

And while you bleed

I’m indifferent

God is a strangely absent father

His back is turned perpetually

All the orphaned sons and daughters

Abide in their suffering

Cry out to me

And I won’t hear a thing

My door is closed

And I’m not listening

When troubles come

You’ll be on your own

Divided from

Some saintly guidance

God is a strangely absent father

His back is turned perpetually

All the orphaned sons and daughters

Abide in their suffering

Believe in me

It won’t make me exist

No matter how

That rumor may persist

Your Kingdom is

The earth on which you walk

Reap your reward

Before its too late

God is a strangely absent father

His back is turned perpetually

All the orphaned sons and daughters

Abide in their suffering