By the Grace of God [Dennis DeYoung]

By the Grace of God
Written by Dennis DeYoung
Lead Vocals by Dennis DeYoung

Frollo
By the grace of God
This could be you standing here today
By the grace of God
You could be blinded and lame

Can't you see
That all God's children
Deserve dignity
And don't you know
Without a word
You could lose all control

No guarantees to your master plan
The powers in his hand
Your world could be crushed with his nod
But for the grace of God

May the Lamb of God
Forgive these sins you commit today
May the Lamb of God
Find you repentant and shamed

King of fools
In heaven's name how could you be so cruel
Can't you see
He had no voice in his deformity

Can you predict with certainty
The way that things will be
When life's but a worthless façade
But for the grace of God

Interpretation

In the first act of the Hunchback of Notre Dame story, Frollo is chastising the people for their mockery of Quasimodo and crowning him "King of Fools." After all, any one of us, but for the grace of God, might have been born deformed and the one being treated so poorly.  May the Lamb of God (John 1:29) forgive you.