Delivery Delayed Lyrics - Peter, Paul & Mary

How early is beginning? 

From when is there a soul? 

Do we discover living, 

Or somehow are we told? 

In sudden pain, in empty cold 

In blinding light of day 

We're given breath and it takes our breath away 

How cruel to unformed fancy, 

The way in which we come 

Overwhelmed by feelings 

And sudden loss of love 

And what price dark confining 

The heart is to forgive 

When all at once we're called upon to live 

Then by giant hands we're taken 

From the shelter of the womb 

That dreaded first horizon 

The endless empty room 

Where communion is lost forever 

When a heart first beats alone 

Still it remembers no matter how it's grown 

We grow, but grow apart 

We live, but more alone 

The more to be, the more to see 

To cry aloud that we are free 

To hide the ancient fear of being alone