SWEET BY AND BY

In the sweet by and by,
This old heart won’t be racing,
There’ll be sweet arms embracing
And the soul won’t be cold
And that long stifled cry
Will be a sweet lullaby
There’ll be no need to sigh
In that sweet by and by

If the bullets push through us
And the war cries are heard,
The blood that seeps from us
Will render all absurd
Cause it won’t mean a thing
If you were pauper or king,
When the end comes to take us
We all get the same wings

I’ve always loved that old gospel somehow,
Never needed it much, like I’m needing it now,
Sweet by and by, come and take me away,
Cause I’m all full of sorrow and you’re so far away

If that meteor hits,
and everything shatters
There will be such relief,
cause nothing will have mattered
And the dust that we came from
will be the dust we’ve become,
And all of our anguish
will be in pieces and crumbs,

Don’t be afraid, cause there ain’t nothing we can do,
And there’s enough love around us to carry us through,
And whatever the shackles whatever the yoke,
When the sweet by and by comes it will all be a joke,

I’ve always loved that old gospel somehow
Never needed it much like I’m needing it now
Sweet by and by come and take me away
Cause I’m all full of sorrow, and you’re so far away.