There Is a Judge Above the Noise

[Intro - Low guitar; piano octaves] [Verse 1 - Bubba, male] Do you speak a righteous verdict, You who weigh the people's cause? Or prepare your harm in secret, Give your violence the name of law? There is poison in the lying, Like a snake that will not hear; No appeal can reach the rulers Who have closed their hearts and ears. [Chorus - Duet and choir] There is a Judge above the noise, There is an answer to the wrong. God, take the teeth from cruel power; Do not let its reign be long. Let the righteous see Your justice, Let the earth confess what's true: There is a Judge above the noise, And the judgment rests with You. [Verse 2 - Darlene, female] Let their strength run off like water, Let their arrows lose their aim; Sweep their schemes away like brushwood Before thorns can feed the flame. Born to wandering, taught in falsehood, They have made deceit their bread; Lord, uproot the rule of evil, Bring its violence to an end. [Bridge - Bubba and Darlene] Fierce the reckoning we cry for, Deep the bloodshed of this land; Let the just rejoice to witness Evil broken by Your hand. [Instrumental Break - Electric blues guitar; low harmonica] [Final Chorus - Duet and choir] There is a Judge above the noise, There is an answer to the wrong. God, take the teeth from cruel power; Do not let its reign be long. Let the righteous see Your justice, Let the earth confess what's true: There is a Judge above the noise, And the judgment rests with You. [Outro - Both, quietly] There is fruit for righteous living; God still judges in the earth.