Peaceable Kingdom Lyrics - Everything And More - Billy Gilman

A leopard with a harmless kid lay down 

And not one savage beast was seen to frown 

The wolf with the lamb, can dwell in peace 

His grim carnivorous nature there did cease 

The lion with the fatling awn did move 

And a little child was leading them in love 

Long ago there was a young painter 

Who had a dream that every creature came 

And stood assembled by his side 

And he painted the sight that had sweetened his night 

For the one hundred times before he died 

A kid lion, and a snake, and a child 

Wide-eyed and formal and smiling like the sun had stopped 

And time had ceased to move 

And the wolf and the lamb 

Came and ate from his hand 

And a man-child was leading them in love 

[Chorus:] 

Friend have you seen all the lines and the spaces 

The colors that the old painter sees 

In the peaceable kingdom that shines in the faces 

Of people from more gentle times than these 

I find myself adrift these days 

And endless maze of ends and ways 

And worlds seem so crazy to be here 

But look away, look away 

Back or forward from today 

To the visions of either fools or sears, oh my 

[Chorus] 

Such a beautiful place 

Full of joy, full of grace 

It was bathed in our saintly yellow lie 

To what learning to know that such things can't be so 

He could only believe that they might, oh my 

[Chorus x 2]