Who Will Answer? [Aleluya No. 1] lyrics

Hallelujah, hallelujah

Hallelujah

From the canyons of the mind

We wander on and stumble blindly

Through the often tangled maze

Of starless nights and sunless days

While asking for some kind of clue

Or road to lead us to the truth

But who will answer

Side by side two people stand

Together vowing, hand in hand

That love's embedded in their hearts

But soon an empty feeling starts

To overwhelm their hollow lives

And when they seek the hows and whys

Who will answer

On a strange and distant hill

A young man's lying very still

His arms will never hold his child

Because a bullet running wild

Has struck him down

And now we cry, dear God

Oh, why, oh, why

But who will answer

High upon a lonely ledge

A figure teeters near the edge

And jeering crowds collect below

To egg him on with, "Go, man, go"

But who will ask what led him

To his private day of doom

And who will answer

If the soul is darkened

By a fear it can not name

If the mind is baffled when

The rules don't fit the game

Who will answer, who will answer

Who will answer

Hallelujah, hallelujah

Hallelujah

In the rooms with darkened shades

The scent of sandalwood pervades

The colored thoughts in muddled heads

Reclining in the rumpled beds of

Unmade dreams that can't come true

And when we ask what we should do

Who, who will answer

'Neath the spreading mushroom tree

The world revolves in apathy

As overhead, a row of specks

Roars on, drowned out by discotheques

And if a secret button's pressed

Because one man has been outguessed

Who will answer?

Is our hope in walnut shells

Worn 'round the neck with temple bells

Or deep within some cloistered walls

Where hooded figures pray in halls?

Or crumbled books on dusty shelves

Or in our stars, or in ourselves

Who will answer?

If the soul is darkened

By a fear it can not name

If the mind is baffled

When the rules don't fit the game

Who will answer, who will answer

Who will answer

Hallelujah, hallelujah

Hallelujah

• Artist:Ed Ames
• Album:Who Will Answer? And Other Songs of Our Time