The After Life

What does it look like in Heaven?

Is it peaceful? Is it free like they say?

Does the sun shine bright forever?

Have your fears and your pain gone away?

(Rest in peace, little sis)

(Sarah Smith)

The choir sings to violin strings to Coram,Gordon Heights

They say they saw the Lord in lights and heard the church organ pipes

So may your soul rest, I know your ghost spoke, I felt your cold breath

Is life a gift or is living just dying a slow death?

Does the pain die? Do the tears dry? Do

we get wings? Do we all fly?

Will I see you again in the afterlife? When

we pass the light, is it paradise?

Are the streets gold? Are the gates pearly?

'Cause they took an angel from the Earthtoo early

As I hold my baby to my chest closely

If I die, then my son won't get to know me

Will I see the morning or is this the ending?

Will I live to dance at my daughter's wedding?

Would they welcome me into the doors of Heaven?

Give my heart a mending and my soul a cleansing

Seen half my family in a coffin

Is Vincent healthy? Is Max talking?

Is Donna happy? Is DeeAnn walking?

'Cause it's been tough ever since we lost’em

The rough climb, deaf, dumb, blind

When we unwind, does the sun shine?

Let me hear your voice just one time

Are you up there? Give me some sign

Just being born, they say we're truly blessed

But is Heaven peaceful? I could use the rest

I would give my last breath to miss you less

How am I holding up? I'm livin' in distress

How am I making out? I'm tongue kissin' death

When the smoke settles, smell the rose petals

And so much has gone wrong

Does the cold flesh ever turn warm?

Can you take us back to the innocence when we were infants?

Being first born

Tell me, what does it look like in Heaven?

Is it peaceful? Is it free like they say?

Does the sun shine bright forever?

Have your fears and your pain gone away?

Damn it

Listening to whispers, vision, magic scene,dream of my sisters

Seen her standing on clouds dancin' in ballerina slippers

No hateful emotion, I see the light glowing over the great ocean

I smell my Aunt Sue's cooking and my dad wavin' as the gates open

In my arms, I hold the queen, is this a broken dream?

The scene is so serene

I'm finally dancin' with my Grandma Josephine

I play chess with my dad's grandfather

My great grandpa Johnny seen my baby nephew Vincent

He kept askin' "bout his mommy

Flashback, the day my sister got the doctor's analysis

Vincent had a sickness, Werdnig-Hoffman syndrome, paralysis

Every other day, he'd stop breathing, come back, and keep breathing on

Then one night, his heart stopped, we couldn't save him, he was gone

It never goes away, and every day, my sister's sufferin'

I beg you that one day my sister gets to hold her son again

Life is a fraud, tell me, where is the final reward?

What kind of Lord lets a child die from a disease in his spinal cord?

See my aunt Joyce, Mary-Jane Bub, my uncle Ritchie who coming with me

Saw Eddie and Reggie, the true G's

Saw Sean and Albert, the two P's

Let's get a taste of this better place

With no skin color, there was never race

Where the words are honest, the truth was spoken

No politicians or fake speech

Where the Palestinians and Israelis could live together

And they make peace and there wasn't room since from the womb

Send love to Malachi, the son of DOOM

Is peace stability part of man's ability?

Can we eat together and stand in tranquility?

Every tribe together from every nation

No separation. hear the trumnet playin'

Tell me, what does it look like in Heaven?

Is it peaceful? Is it free like they say?

Does the sun shine bright forever?

Have your fears and your pain gone away?

Oh, everything

Fantasy

All night

Here on Earth

Into next

Damn it