Tell me, there’s a heaven (1989) (video)

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1. The little girl, she said to me, what are these things that I can see

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each night when I come home from school,

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when mama calls me in for tea.

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Oh, every night a baby dies, and every night a mama cries.

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What makes those men do what they do,

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to make that person black and blue ?

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Grandpa says they’re happy now,

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they sit with God in paradise,

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with angels’ wings and still somehow,

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it makes me feel like ice.

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Tell me there’s a heaven, tell me that it’s true,

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tell me there’s a reason why I’m seeing what I do.

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Tell me there’s a heaven, where all those people go,

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tell me they’re all happy now, papa, tell me, that it’s so.

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2. So do I tell her that it’s true? That there’s a place for me and you,

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where hungry children smile and say, we wouldn’t have no other way.

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That every painful crack of bones is a step along the way,

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every wrong done is a game plan

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to that great and joyful day.

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And I’m looking at the father and the son,

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and I’m looking at the mother and the daughter.

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And I’m watching them in tears of pain, and I’m watching them suffer,

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don’t tell that little girl, tell me.

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Tell me there’s a heaven, tell me that it’s true,

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tell me there’s a reason why I’m seeing what I do.

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Tell me there’s a heaven, where all those people go,

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tell me they’re all happy now, papa, tell me, that it’s so.

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(Chris Rea)