The Incredible String Band - Job's Tears lyrics

We're all still here

no one has gone away

Waiting, acting much too

well and procrastinating

The cross of the earth

(let me go through)

The four winds point them

Body to body

Seas to anoint them

The reed they brought him

Sponge and vinegar

Fiery serpents

Spitting gold and cinnamon

The moon was bleeding

And stars were shallow

And the sword that killed him

Was a sword of willow

Hello I must be going well I only came to say

I hear my mother calling and I must be on my way

O I remember it all from before

The winter and the midnight

Could not hold him

The fire could not burn him

Nor earth enfold him

Rise up Lazarus

Sweet and salty

Brother soldiers

Stop your gambling and talk to me

The thieves were stealers

But reason condemned him

And the grave was empty

Where they had laid him

Why heroes die at sunrise

Why the birds are arrows of the wise

Why each perfumed flower

Why each moment has its hour

It's you

It's all true

Stranger than that we're alive

Stranger than that

Stranger than that

Whatever you think

It's more than that, more than that

Happy man, the happy man

Doing the best he can

Keep on walking where the angels showed

(All will be one)

Travelling where the saints have trod

Over in the old golden land

In the golden book of the golden game

The golden angel wrote my name

When the deal goes down I'll put my crown

Over in the old golden land

I won't need to kiss you when we're there

(All will be one)

I won't need to miss you when we're there

Over in the old golden land

We'll understand it better in the sweet bye and bye

You won't need to worry and you won't have to cry

Over in the old golden land