Emmylou Harris The Pearl Lyrics

The Pearl Lyrics

O the dragons are gonna fly tonight
They're circling low and inside
tonight
It's another round in the losing fight
Out along the great divide
tonight

We are aging soldiers in an ancient war
Seeking out some half
remembered shore
We drink our fill and still we thirst for more
Asking if
there's no heaven what is this hunger for?

Our path is worn our feet are
poorly shod
We lift up our prayer against the odds
And fear the silence
is the voice of God

And we cry Allelujah Allelujah
We cry
Allelujah

Sorrow is constant and the joys are brief
The seasons come
and bring no sweet relief
Time is a brutal but a careless theif
Who takes
our lot but leaves behind the grief

It is the heart that kills us in the
end
Just one more old broken bone that cannot mend
As it was now and ever
shall be amen

And we cry Allelujah Allelujah
We cry
Allelujah

So there'll be no guiding light for you and me
We are not
sailors lost out on the sea
We were always headed toward eternity
Hoping
for a glimpse of Gaililee

Like falling stars from the universe we are
hurled
Down through the long loneliness of the world
Until we behold the
pain become the pearl

Cryin Allelujah Allelujah
We cry
Allelujah

And we cry Allelujah Allelujah
We cry Allelujah