Rosaries at the Border
Seeking Vision and Wisdom: Rosaries Unveiling Borders
Lyrics
Be thou my vision
Asking for guidance and direction
Be my vision
Requesting a clear focus or goal
Be thou my wisdom
Seeking understanding and insight
Be my wisdom
Desiring personal wisdom
Lord, something's missing
Expressing a sense of lacking or emptiness
Something we are missing
Highlighting a collective sense of missing something important
They come running
Describing people arriving urgently or swiftly
Hideous horror
Portraying a shocking and dreadful experience
Down at the border
Referring to a specific location at a border
Mama and baby
Depicting a mother with her child
Mama, she is weeping
Showing the mother's emotional distress through tears
But we are a god fearing
Claiming a religious, morally upright identity
God fearing country
Asserting the nation's religious beliefs
So they come running
Reiterating the urgent arrival of people
They told her life was better on the other side
Assuring a promise of a better life on the other side of the border
You'll give your babies a better chance
Implying a hope for better opportunities for children
Than you had in your whole life
Highlighting the desperation for the family's fate
For the fate of her family
Describing a mother's prayer for help
And as she prayed to Jesus Christ
Describing the mother's action of arriving urgently
She came running
Expressing a desire for an intimate connection and repentance
She came running
Expressing a desire to reach out or connect despite obstacles
She came running
Seeking forgiveness for the nation's actions
Oh to wash her feet with my perfumed hair
Expressing a sense of shared spiritual connection
To touch the hem of what they're making her wear
Stating a collective responsibility and action
And say forgive my nation though they know what they do
Emphasizing a shared humanity and spirituality
I swear somewhere down the line we served the same God as you
Stating a collective acknowledgment and apology
We came running too
Expressing a sense of urgency in their arrival
We came running too
Reiterating the urgency in their actions
We came running too
Emphasizing the collective nature of their arrival
We came running too
Repeating the urgency and collective action
Be thou our vision
Requesting guidance and direction for all
Be our vision
Asking for a shared focus or goal
Be thou our wisdom
Seeking understanding and insight for everyone
Be our wisdom
Desiring collective wisdom for all
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