Tell Me There's A Heaven

Filed under Music | 7 December 2007 | No comments yet

It’s not often that I come across a song that gives me goosebumps… every time I listen to it! 

“Tell me there’s a heaven” by Chris Rea is just that kind of a song. 

Even though you can’t get the complete feel of the song unless you hear it with its excellent music arrangement, the lyrics are so moving that just reading the words should prove well worth the effort.  Here it is:

The little girl she said to me
What are these things that I can see
Each night when I come home from school
When mama calls me in for tea
Oh every night a baby dies
And every night a mama cries
What makes those men do what they do
To make that person black and blue
Grandpa says
They’re happy now
They sit with God
In paradise
With angels’ wings and still somehow
It makes me feel like ice

Tell me there’s a heaven
Tell me that it’s true
Tell me there’s a reason
Why I’m seeing what I do
Tell me there’s a heaven
Where all those people go
Tell me they’re all happy now
Papa tell me that it’s so

So do I tell her that it’s true
That there’s a place for me and you
Where hungry children smile and say
We wouldn’t have no other way
That every painful crack of bones
Is a step along the way
Every wrong done is a game plan
To that great and joyful day

And I’m looking at the father and the son
And I’m looking at the mother and the daughter
And I’m watching them in tears of pain
And I’m watching them suffer
Don’t tell that little girl
Tell me

Tell me there’s a heaven
Tell me that it’s true
Tell me there’s a reason
Why I’m seeing what I do

Tell me there’s a heaven
Where all those people go
Tell me they’re all happy now
Papa tell me that it’s so

Hear that song today to know what a good piece of music can do to your senses.  And then, ponder over its meaning for a bit.

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