Hear Our Cry Tonight

Verse

Rain taps on Pacific Avenue — streetlamps glow on broken dreams

Cardboard beds under cold stars, wind my only blanket under neon beams

Mama’s prayers drift through alley echoes, city sleeps while hearts still bleed

Tacoma lights shine distant, but tonight I’m cold, no shelter from the need

Pre-chorus

They promised beds, said there’d be room — but doors shut when funds ran dry

When shelter walls go dark, who counts the souls left wondering why?

Chorus

Tacoma — hear our cry tonight, under street-lamps and pouring skies

We lift battered prayers for mercy, love, a place to lie

Though the world turned its back on wounded lives in the cold

We hold faith tight — we believe in home, in hope, in souls made whole

Verse

Shelters shut, beds gone — 300-plus lost this cold 2025, people pushed to streets and tents.

Veterans, elders, mothers, children — cast aside, invisible in the gloom

Encampments cleared, stories erased — names unknown, futures paused in the wind.

Yet we walk, we hope — hearts unbroken, souls refusing to disappear too soon

Pre-chorus

Night after night, on concrete cold, we whisper prayers into the rain

Brittle bones and weary eyes — still we carry mercy through the pain

Chorus

Tacoma — hear our cry tonight, under street-lamps and pouring skies

We lift battered prayers for mercy, love, a place to lie

Though the world turned its back on wounded lives in the cold

We hold faith tight — we believe in home, in hope, in souls made whole

Bridge

Under freeway overpass, shared blankets, whispered names — kin in sorrow, kin in hope

Between tents and empty bottles, hands clasped tight — remembering we are human, not just ghosts

Maybe tomorrow a door opens, maybe tomorrow a bed, maybe someone sees — and lifts us from concrete’s cold

Verse

I walk Tacoma’s rain-slick streets till I find a porch light warm, a shelter wide

Till I taste kindness again — strength in human hearts, dignity in soft inside

I believe in mercy beyond ordinances, in hands that reach across the divide

I believe in dawn where sorrow ends — where lost souls find shelter, find pride

Chorus

Tacoma — hear our prayer tonight, in the rain, in the neon glow

We lift our voices, cracked but strong — for brothers, sisters, all souls we know

Though nights were long, shelter scarce, hearts bruised deep and cold

We stand, we sing — for home, for hope, for every lost and wounded soul

Outro

May tomorrow bring open doors, warm beds, caring hands, and hearts that hold

Tacoma — we cling to you, we cling to hope — we are alive, we are human, we are whole