The Waiting - Heaven Is Home lyrics

If a body that suffers is done with sin As Saint Peter said Then I saw perfection's bones Barely holding skin Melting in the bed The biggest man I knew Was barely days away from dead And he said, "Heaven is home" The third step-son of a seventh son My mother's only dad Now lay down, stricken One desperate lung And Marlboro mad Still that man breathed in enough To be amazed at all he had And he sang, "Heaven is home" His last breath he took He read from the book It said everybody dies Now he's two years gone And I still can look At tears in my mother's eyes She says "Son, what matters most Is the way you wave goodbye And if Heaven is home"