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Don't shoot the wounded
They need us more than ever
They need our love
No matter what it is they've done
Sometimes we just condemn them
And don't take time to hear their story
Don't shoot the wounded
Someday you might be one
It's easy to love the people
Who are standing hard and fast
Pressing on to meet that higher calling
But the ones who might be struggling
We tend to judge too harshly
And refuse to try and catch them
When they're falling
We put people into boxes
And we draw our hard conclusions
And when they do the things we know
They should not do
We sometimes write them off as hopeless
And we throw them to the dogs
Our compassion and forgiveness sometimes
Seem in short supply so I say
Don't shoot the wounded
They need us more than ever
They need our love no matter
What it is the've done
Sometimes we just condemn them
And don't take time to hear their story
Don't shoot the wounded
Someday you might be one
We can love them and forgive them
When their sin does not exceed our own
For we too have been down bumpy roads before
But when they commit offenses outside the
Boundaries we have set
We judge them in a word and we turn them out
And we close the door
Myself, I've been forgiven
For so many awful things
I've been cleansed and washed and bathed
So many times
That when I see a brother
Who has fallen from the way
I just can't find the license to
Convict him of his crime
So I say, don't shoot the wound
They need us more than ever
They need our love
No matter what it is they done
Sometimes we just condemn them
And don't take time to hear their story