HEAVEN AND EARTH
Got your postcard
That you sent me
From Australia
I see you made it all the way to Perth
I'd be with you
Tomorrow
Let me tell ya
But I'm so busy
Moving Heaven and Earth.
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When I fell for you
That was up here
Not Down Under
There was laughter, there was loving, there was mirth
I saw the lightning
Heard the thunder
It was frightening
It musta scared you all the way to Perth.
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CHORUS
You said you'd come home
If I built us a home
So I got bricks
I got mortar
I got earth.
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But you needed a blessing
Before we started messing
A nod from God
Help from angels
Virgin birth.
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I'm building us a home
So you don't have to roam
I'm speaking with the Man Upstairs
He says it took more than a day
To build the City of Rome
That's why I'm busy
Moving Heaven and Earth.
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I called the shipyard
To the captain
Of a liner
'Need a ticket, need some passage, need a berth'
Nothing sweeter, there's
Nothing finer
Without your arms
What the heck is life worth?
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He apologized:
'But this is
Louisiana'
He said, 'since Katrina, there's been a dearth'
Since I got no way
To get to
Australia
I'll get back to moving Heaven and Earth.
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I got the logs up
I got the roof
I got shingles
To get our home built, I moved Heaven and Earth
To see you here
The thought
Gives me tingles
But will that coax you all the way from Perth?
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