Heaven

Heaven

1990 and many times rewritten thereafter

jp melville

Cause I picked a flower in heaven one day

Been walking down a road a long time now

Still not seen no end

I keep on walking along wishing to believe

That I’ll wake in the morning again.

Now come on baby reach across this endless sea

Something they call eternity

Hold out your hand take the light in your eyes

There’s no distance in infinity.

Crazy that I been learning all life long

To be looking somewhere I’ll never be

Crazy there’s something just a bit lonely

To be searching for what I’ll never see.

Somewhere I been looking for miracles

Wondering far away outside

Funny how I begin to find a few of them

When I come to learn to look inside.

Found a little seed hiding way down there

Way down in the deepest dark

And only when I let a little love inside

Did the dark become heaven’s light.

Now come on baby reach across this endless sea

Something they call eternity

Hold out your hand take the light in your eyes

There’s no distance in infinity

Where I picked a flower in heaven one day,

thinking then of you,

But because I was there,

and you were here,

it was only the thought I gave to you.