HEAVEN KNOWS

I don't want to go to heaven, Heaven Knows

I want to live with my lover, here below

Wrapped in the arms of a holy secret

Heaven dreamed up years ago.

I heard the story as a child

Of peace in the valley, but the valley's defiled

Wracked with the screams of wicked lies

From valley so low to mountain so high

And I long for the drummer to beat in the time

When the gift and the giver are neither denied

So I don't have to go where lovers can't go

God knows I'm tired of dreaming alone

So wrap me up tight with a moonlit soul

Walk me through death, but drop me back home

And I'll tend the garden, the fruit and the vine

And I'll stay with him, if he'll stay behind

'Cause I don't want to go to heaven, Heaven Knows,

I want to live with my lover here below

Wrapped in the arms of a holy secret

Heaven dreamed up years ago