The After Life - R.A. the Rugged Man/Sarah Smith.mp3

[00:00.303]What does it look like in Heaven?
[00:05.311]Is it peaceful? Is it free like they say?
[00:10.574]Does the sun shine bright forever?
[00:18.342]Have your fears and your pain gone away?
[00:24.357](Rest in peace, little sis)
[00:24.857](Sarah Smith)
[00:26.861]The choir sings to violin strings to Coram,Gordon Heights
[00:30.622]They say they saw the Lord in lights and heard the church organ pipes
[00:33.625]So may your soul rest, I know your ghost spoke, I felt your cold breath
[00:37.386]Is life a gift or is living just dying a slow death?
[00:40.891]Does the pain die? Do the tears dry? Do
[00:43.398]we get wings? Do we all fly?
[00:44.903]Will I see you again in the afterlife? When
[00:46.655]we pass the light, is it paradise?
[00:48.156]Are the streets gold? Are the gates pearly?
[00:50.161]'Cause they took an angel from the Earthtoo early
[00:51.918]As I hold my baby to my chest closely
[00:53.671]If I die, then my son won't get to know me
[00:54.922]Will I see the morning or is this the ending?
[00:56.674]Will I live to dance at my daughter's wedding?
[00:58.431]Would they welcome me into the doors of Heaven?
[01:00.437]Give my heart a mending and my soul a cleansing
[01:01.938]Seen half my family in a coffin
[01:03.690]Is Vincent healthy? Is Max talking?
[01:05.696]Is Donna happy? Is DeeAnn walking?
[01:07.453]'Cause it's been tough ever since we lost’em
[01:09.204]The rough climb, deaf, dumb, blind
[01:10.957]When we unwind, does the sun shine?
[01:12.461]Let me hear your voice just one time
[01:14.217]Are you up there? Give me some sign
[01:15.970]Just being born, they say we're truly blessed
[01:17.723]But is Heaven peaceful? I could use the rest
[01:19.228]I would give my last breath to miss you less
[01:20.984]How am I holding up? I'm livin' in distress
[01:22.736]How am I making out? I'm tongue kissin' death
[01:24.489]When the smoke settles, smell the rose petals
[01:26.244]And so much has gone wrong
[01:28.000]Does the cold flesh ever turn warm?
[01:30.002]Can you take us back to the innocence when we were infants?
[01:31.754]Being first born
[01:33.758]Tell me, what does it look like in Heaven?
[01:38.769]Is it peaceful? Is it free like they say?
[01:45.534]Does the sun shine bright forever?
[01:52.050]Have your fears and your pain gone away?
[02:00.573]Damn it
[02:04.333]Listening to whispers, vision, magic scene,dream of my sisters
[02:08.090]Seen her standing on clouds dancin' in ballerina slippers
[02:11.354]No hateful emotion, I see the light glowing over the great ocean
[02:14.857]I smell my Aunt Sue's cooking and my dad wavin' as the gates open
[02:18.616]In my arms, I hold the queen, is this a broken dream?
[02:21.371]The scene is so serene
[02:22.625]I'm finally dancin' with my Grandma Josephine
[02:25.132]I play chess with my dad's grandfather
[02:27.383]My great grandpa Johnny seen my baby nephew Vincent
[02:30.643]He kept askin' "bout his mommy
[02:32.397]Flashback, the day my sister got the doctor's analysis
[02:35.664]Vincent had a sickness, Werdnig-Hoffman syndrome, paralysis
[02:39.670]Every other day, he'd stop breathing, come back, and keep breathing on
[02:42.930]Then one night, his heart stopped, we couldn't save him, he was gone
[02:46.434]It never goes away, and every day, my sister's sufferin'
[02:49.945]I beg you that one day my sister gets to hold her son again
[02:53.449]Life is a fraud, tell me, where is the final reward?
[02:56.458]What kind of Lord lets a child die from a disease in his spinal cord?
[03:00.214]See my aunt Joyce, Mary-Jane Bub, my uncle Ritchie who coming with me
[03:03.974]Saw Eddie and Reggie, the true G's
[03:05.479]Saw Sean and Albert, the two P's
[03:07.230]Let's get a taste of this better place
[03:08.983]With no skin color, there was never race
[03:10.738]Where the words are honest, the truth was spoken
[03:12.996]No politicians or fake speech
[03:14.498]Where the Palestinians and Israelis could live together
[03:16.002]And they make peace and there wasn't room since from the womb
[03:19.511]Send love to Malachi, the son of DOOM
[03:21.262]Is peace stability part of man's ability?
[03:22.765]Can we eat together and stand in tranquility?
[03:23.265]Every tribe together from every nation
[03:24.770]No separation. hear the trumnet playin'
[03:28.028]Tell me, what does it look like in Heaven?
[03:34.544]Is it peaceful? Is it free like they say?
[03:41.810]Does the sun shine bright forever?
[03:48.825]Have your fears and your pain gone away?
[03:56.083]Oh, everything
[04:02.597]Fantasy
[04:06.108]All night
[04:09.862]Here on Earth
[04:16.877]Into next
[04:20.388]Damn it