Incredible String Band Job`s Tears Lyrics

Job`s Tears Lyrics

We're all still here, no one has gone away

Waiting, acting much too well and procrastinating



The cross of the earth, the four winds point them

Body to body sees to anoint them

The reed, they brought him sponge and vinegar

The fiery serpents spitting gold and cinnamon

The moon was bleeding and stars were shallow

And the sword that killed him was a sword of willow



Hello I must be going well I only came to say

I hear my mother calling and I must be on my way

Oh I remember it all from before



The winter and the midnight could not hold him

The fire could not burn him nor earth enfold him

Rise up Lazarus, sweet and salty

Brother soldiers, stop your gambling and talk to me

The thieves were stealers but reason condemned him

And the grave was empty where they had laid him



Hello I must be going well I only came to say

I hear my mother calling and I must be on my way

Oh I remember it all from before



Why heroes die at sunrise? Why the birds are arrows of the wise?

Why each perfumed flower? Why each moment has its hour?

It's you, it's all true



Stranger than that we're alive, stranger than that, stranger than that

Stranger than that we're alive

Whatever you think, it's more than that, more than that

Happy man, happy man doing the best he can, doing the best he can

Happy man, happy man doing the best he can, doing the best he can

Oh happy man



Keep on walking where the angels showed

All will be one, all will be one

Traveling where the saints have trod

Over to  the old golden land

The golden angel wrote my name

Over in the old golden land



I won't need to kiss you when we're there

All will be one, all will be one

I won't need to miss you when we're there

Over in the old golden land

The golden angel wrote my name

Over in the old golden land



We'll understand it better in the sweet bye and bye

All will be one, all will be one

You won't need to worry and you won't have to cry

Over in the old golden land

The golden angel wrote my name

Over in the old golden land