Let our hearts be broken, alternate tune

Let our hearts be broken, let our souls be torn;

For the chaos 'round us, let us weep and mourn.

Violence and hatred, practiced in your name?

Your true gospel twisted into fear and shame?

 

Refrain:

Let our hearts be broken, let our souls be torn;

For the chaos 'round us, let us weep and mourn.

 

How have we stood silent for so many years

While this anti-gospel stoked up angry fears?

Why did we not speak out until so, so late?

When the lie was shouted, why did we still wait?

Refrain 

 

Now our call to answer will no longer wait:

Speaking truth to falsehood, speaking love to hate;

Ev'n amidst such violence, injuries and pains,

Bearing witness only to the Christ who reigns.

Refrain 

 

 

TEXT: Charles Spence Freeman, June 2026.

MUSIC: Tune WYE VALLEY, James Mountain, 1876.

 

 

One of those inevitable attempts to express in a hymn some kind of response to <gestures around wildly> all this. Set to the alternate tune, with refrain.