I Hope I'll See You In Heaven - Larry Norman

When you first begin your journey, you’re not sure of who you are

And the lessons that you’re learning don’t seem to take you far

And you just can’t keep from stumbling,

Though you try so hard to stand

And the truth can be so humbling

When it’s just beyond your hand

As though youth were my invention

As though love lay undefined

To stay free was my intention

To stay young and unconfined

So I held my pride above you

Oh yes, what a fool was I Holding back those words I love you

And letting out those words good bye

I was wrong to let you go I was a child and I did not know about the love

That we both could have given

And now you’ve gone

So far away

I hope I’ll see you again someday

But if I don’t, I hope I’ll see you in heaven

I was foolish in my younger days

To think they’d never end

Life confused me with its changing ways and I could not comprehend

All the meaning in those moments

Now lost like footprints in the sand

And I’m standing here remembering but it’s so hard to understand

And I was wrong to let you go I was a child how could I know

That we both should have given

And now you’ve gone, so far away

I hope I’ll see you again someday

But if I don’t, I hope I’ll see you in heaven

I’ve been sitting in this garden

In the middle of my days

And my memories fade and harden as the years they slip away

I’ve been looking in the mirror

At the age around my eyes

Time is such an earnest labourer, precision is his neighbour

Lay my body in the ground but let my spirit touch the sky

And I was wrong to let you go I was a child I just didn’t know about the love

That we both could have, should have given

And now you’ve gone, so far away

I hope I’ll see you again someday

But if I don’t, I hope I’ll see you in heaven