Somebody's Heaven
Music by 10,000 Maniacs - Lyrics by Mary Ramsey
There like a feather you fell someone's heaven above me
floating so fickle tempting me teasing my ways
thrown from its clutches I struggle to free what escapes me
Absalom hanging like you I'm caught in between
heaven then earth then heaven between you
release me untangle my hair
Absalom hanging like you I'm caught in between
heaven then earth heaven between you
patient I wait as I hold a small feather
that floated from somebody's heaven.
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Chorus:
Standing at the gates
This is Jericho
And the walls reach up to the stars
And outside we were singing psalms
Such a strange, strange place
For we are the prisoners
Of the prisoners we have taken
And the prophets' dreams are now forsaken
Sing me the songs of a world that I onc
Dream if you will but remember there are iron laws
However much you seek to solve this mystery
No one ignores the iron vice of history
All those gone before dreamed to escape
They tried to fly over the palisades
Chorus:
Standing at the gates
This is Jericho
And the walls reach up to the stars
And outside we were singing psalms
Such a strange, strange place
For we are the prisoners
Of the prisoners we have taken
And the prophets' dreams are now forsaken
Sing me the songs of a world that I onc