The Other Side Lyrics

What if when you were a baby

You were born to the wrong side

And you were taught the other story

The other people's harmful lies

But what if every time you questioned

They warned you get back into line

Would you ever search for wisdom

Or accept that they were right

Do you think you would be brave enough

To seek out what was true

And how would you know to search for truth

What if where you sought divine love

Was a book of empty sounds

That you were told had come from Heaven

The words of God written down

But what if when you tried to leave it You were faced on every side

With the threat of endless torture

And fear of being ostracized

What if in the name of wisdom

You were taught all others blind

And though you only saw their straw men

You were certain of their lies

What if violence filled your vision

For the sake of proving right

And in the name of God and nation

You had taken countless lives

Do you think you could tell

All the men who made you who you are

I'm trading honor for life

What if all you knew from childhood

When you came at last to die

You discovered to be falsehood

That had scraped you dry

And what if by those lies your heart turned

Into something like a hell

And as your eyes beheld the earth, one last time

They detested every cell

Would they welcome you in Heaven

Would you care for it at all

If you had all the while lived in hell

But what if in the name of Jesus

You had stayed true to this life

Do you think he would forgive you

For your ignorance and pride

And what if when you finally met him

He was different than you thought

And the box they put around him

Made you hate what you saw

What if God was not the person

That you always thought he was

What if God looked like the other side

And what if all the while the closest

You could ever be to God

Was to love a stranger's soul