Barclay James Harvest The Hymn For The Children Lyrics

Hymn For The Children Lyrics

Their spirits soar on high

 They wing with birds that float on by

 Your love and mine

 Their spirits with the breeze

 That gently plays the summer leaves

 Your love and mine

 

 Life is a bird in the sky

 Life is the breeze blowing by

 Time picked the words

 Time picked the songs

 But we sang them wrong

 

 Their spirits with the rain

 That feeds the wheat and weeds the same

 Your love and mine

 

 

 The sun their spirits light

 That feels and warms both black and white

 Your love and mine

 

 Life is the rain from on high

 Life is the sun in the sky

 Time picked the words

 Time picked the songs

 We were the choir

 But we sang them wrong

 

 Their spirits bless the cruel

 The intellectual, the fool

 Your love and mine

 

 Their spirits point the way

 But who has noticed, who will say

 Your love or mine?

 

 Life is a soft lullaby

 Soothing a child as it cries

 But it cries in pain

 Time wrote the songs

 We hear the cry

 And still we sing wrong