Job's Tears Lyrics - Incredible String Band

We're all still here, no one has gone away 

Waiting, acting much too well and procrastinating 

The cross of the earth, the four winds point them 

Body to body sees to anoint them 

The reed, they brought him sponge and vinegar 

The fiery serpents spitting gold and cinnamon 

The moon was bleeding and stars were shallow 

And the sword that killed him was a sword of willow 

Hello I must be going well I only came to say 

I hear my mother calling and I must be on my way 

Oh I remember it all from before 

The winter and the midnight could not hold him 

The fire could not burn him nor earth enfold him 

Rise up Lazarus, sweet and salty 

Brother soldiers, stop your gambling and talk to me 

The thieves were stealers but reason condemned him 

And the grave was empty where they had laid him 

Hello I must be going well I only came to say 

I hear my mother calling and I must be on my way 

Oh I remember it all from before 

Why heroes die at sunrise? Why the birds are arrows of the wise? 

Why each perfumed flower? Why each moment has its hour? 

It's you, it's all true 

Stranger than that we're alive, stranger than that, stranger than that 

Stranger than that we're alive 

Whatever you think, it's more than that, more than that 

Happy man, happy man doing the best he can, doing the best he can 

Happy man, happy man doing the best he can, doing the best he can 

Oh happy man 

Keep on walking where the angels showed 

All will be one, all will be one 

Traveling where the saints have trod 

Over to the old golden land 

The golden angel wrote my name 

Over in the old golden land 

I won't need to kiss you when we're there 

All will be one, all will be one 

I won't need to miss you when we're there 

Over in the old golden land 

The golden angel wrote my name 

Over in the old golden land 

We'll understand it better in the sweet bye and bye 

All will be one, all will be one 

You won't need to worry and you won't have to cry 

Over in the old golden land 

The golden angel wrote my name 

Over in the old golden land