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

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