Emmylou Harris Lost Unto This World Lyrics

Lost Unto This World Lyrics

Hmm ohh ohh

Hmm hmm hmm ohh



I was once some mother's darlin'

Some daddy's little girl

More a precious than the ruby

More cherished than the pearl

My heart was full of mercy

And my forehead full of curl

Now I am nothing and I'm lost unto this world



I am lost unto this world

I am lost unto this world

I am lost unto this world

I am lost unto this world



They herded me like cattle

Cut me down like corn

Took me from my babies

Before they could be born



You can blame it on the famine

You can blame it on the war

You can blame it on the Devil

It don't matter anymore



I am lost unto this world

I am lost unto this world

I am lost unto this world

I am lost unto this world



I was tortured in the desert

I was raped out on the plane

I was murdered by the highway

And my cries went up in vain



My blood is on the mountain

My blood is on the sand

My blood runs in the rivers

That now washes through their hands



I am lost unto this world

I am lost unto this world

I am lost unto this world

I am lost unto this world



Oh can I get no witness

This unholy tale to tell?

Was God the only one there watching

And weeping as I fell?



Umm hmm umm hmm

Umm hmm umm hmm

Umm hmm umm hmm

Umm hmm umm hmm



Ohh you among the living

Will you remember me at all?

Will you write my name out

With a single finger scrawl?



Across a broken window

In some long forgotten wall

That goes stretching out forever

Where the tears of Heaven fall



I am lost unto this world

I am lost unto this world

I am lost unto this world

I am lost unto this world

I am lost unto this world



I am lost unto this world

I am lost unto this world

I am lost unto this world