Song Description
The song
| Song Length |
3:50 |
Genre |
Unique - Gospel, Country - Religious |
| Tempo |
Medium (111 - 130) |
Lead Vocal |
Female Vocal |
| Mood |
Pleasant, Diplomatic |
Subject |
Spirituality, Paradise |
| Similar Artists |
Amy Grant, Joan Baez |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
PLEASANTVILLE (Heavenville)
Words and Music by JOANNA
I laid down on my bed and grabbed the TV remote
The stress and strain of work that day had tried up my soul
I’m gonna watch Pleasantville, I’m gonna ‘scape to Pleasantville.
All the people there had faces pasty and gray
It seemed at first just outward, and it’s easy to say
That they’re from Pleasantville, they’re all like that in Pleasantville.
But you know that the world is like that, only superficial like that
Underneath there are dead men’s bones at, in the middle of their souls where death’s at.
The church keeps sayin that we should not anger or fear
But we can’t hide the things deep down that have plagued us for years
Like they did in Pleasantville, all covered up in Pleasantville.
But you know that the church is like that, only superficial like that
Underneath there are dead men’s bones at, in the middle of their souls where death’s at.
But we can be free, our eyes can come alive
Our faces can show the colors of our hearts.
But you know in Pleasantville they had to look inside them and say
That their feelings were OK, but how they used them would say
If they could be free, if their eyes could come alive
If their faces might show the newness of their lives
I lay down on my bed turnin off the TV remote
I spread my arms out from my side like hangin on a cross
Outstretched to Heavenville, I gave my heart to Heavenville
God reached inside and took from me my heart made of stone
And replaced in me a heart of flesh and called me His own
I moved to Heavenville, I’ve come home to Heavenville.
But you know that Heaven is like that, exposing all our deep down thoughts that,
Have kept us from the eternal life that’s, at the middle of our hearts where loves at.
And we can be free, our eyes can come alive
Our faces can show, the newness of our lives.
But you know that Heaven is like that, exposing all our deep down thoughts that,
have kept us from the eternal life that’s, at the middle of our hearts where loves at. repeat and fade
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