Oh stranger standing in the rain
I can not help but notice your pain

Here in this distant land so far from home
Where everything's so different from what you've always know

As I hold your hands and look into your eyes
I fail to see what they've said's inside

No hatred or loathing
All I see is a person in different clothing

Why is it they must decree
One tongue speaks better than another

If our kings would sit silent for a moment and listen
They would hear we all laugh together as brothers

But instead the rain pours down
On this broken night

Oh stranger standing in the rain
Please forgive me

I wish this were another time
Before borders and orders

Dreamt up and imagined
By those with much who care for little

They say it's men like me
Who'll burn for eternity

If we do not do what's right
Bring the light into this night

But God it hurts so much
To see these strangers lying broken in the rain

Why can't they see
We look for heaven in different places

But in light or night
It's all the same sky we search in fright

Oh strangers dying in the rain
Please forgive me