Distant Echoes
A little girl's laughter fades again
Her innocence has been
Stolen
I hear she's kept by evil men
Who mistake children for victims
Sold to corruption by the condemned
When will You come to rescue them?
Listen listen for the distant sound
Babies crying underground
Where there's no hope in being found
Without a mother to respond
No arm to catch them falling down
When a father is long gone
But we will hear and we will hold and we will be
The hands and feet once pierced to meet and set them free
We'll give our lives to testify the love of Christ
Til His own blood washes clean the final child
I see their tears like drops of rain
Their stories like my own
Bloodstain
I have heard them crying in the night
I have heard them screaming for the light
Echoes of those I can't deny
Send me Father, here am I
Chorus
Unseen faces are precious in Your sight
Their forgotten names have cost You Your life
If You in death remembered me
May I in life remember these
Redemption waits within Your blood
How can they know unless they're shown?
Freedom in unspoken words
How can they hear unless they're told?
How can they speak unless they're heard?
But we will hear and we will hold and we will be
The hands and feet once pierced to meet and set them free
We'll give our lives to testify the love of Christ
Til His own blood washes clean the final child
Christ in me, hope of relief
Christ in you, hope of rescue
Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow.
Her innocence has been
Stolen
I hear she's kept by evil men
Who mistake children for victims
Sold to corruption by the condemned
When will You come to rescue them?
Listen listen for the distant sound
Babies crying underground
Where there's no hope in being found
Without a mother to respond
No arm to catch them falling down
When a father is long gone
But we will hear and we will hold and we will be
The hands and feet once pierced to meet and set them free
We'll give our lives to testify the love of Christ
Til His own blood washes clean the final child
I see their tears like drops of rain
Their stories like my own
Bloodstain
I have heard them crying in the night
I have heard them screaming for the light
Echoes of those I can't deny
Send me Father, here am I
Chorus
Unseen faces are precious in Your sight
Their forgotten names have cost You Your life
If You in death remembered me
May I in life remember these
Redemption waits within Your blood
How can they know unless they're shown?
Freedom in unspoken words
How can they hear unless they're told?
How can they speak unless they're heard?
But we will hear and we will hold and we will be
The hands and feet once pierced to meet and set them free
We'll give our lives to testify the love of Christ
Til His own blood washes clean the final child
Christ in me, hope of relief
Christ in you, hope of rescue
Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow.