Lyrics

Only 32 when hope slipped away from her
Sorrow choked the room and gripped your heart with its vice
As her body grows heavy, still and chilling cold
Dare you hold her hand and feel your own mortality
Everything around her cries,
It's not fair, you put us here and it's not right. How can it be?

On that day the sun was high and shinning bright
Boys would laugh and play and run far, far away
But at four years old his mother heard his steps no more
She kissed her son and laid his head down low in the grave
Everything within her cries,
It's not fair, you put us here and it's not right. How can it be?
Was I only made for this, to feel forever with a heart that lies?

But I know my redeemer, He lives and breathes
Alive as flesh and bone, with victory o'er the grave
O Now Death where is thy sting, for like him we'll be
Falling into the arms of One who's calling you
He's calling you home

From the first cries of life it feels out of joint
With all its slings of toil, fear and perplexity
The longings of my mind make this skin feel too tight
But still this mortal coil is all of life that I can see

Have you seen the beauty breaking through the suffering here
Have you touched another with love not your own
Have you felt all eternity beating your breast
Have you heard the aching melody calling you

Only 98 years young when life slipped from her
Her days were long and full but still she had feared this day
As her body grows heavy, still and chilling cold
Dare you hold her hand and feel your own mortality
Everything within her cries,
It's not fair, you put us here and it's not right. How can it be?
Was I only made for this, to feel forever with a heart that lies?