Temporary Lyrics - Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away - Slaid Cleaves

Fall down on your knees 

Hear the whisper through the trees 

No one's come to save you 

Let fade the little lies 

The sentimental cries 

Behold what nature gave you 

All you see 

Every love and every dream 

Temporary 

As the morning dew will turn to steam 

Battered by the years 

We'll quit this vale of tears 

And leave the world to turn 

The voice of midnight comes 

And spoken on its tongue: 

Man's infinite concern 

All you see 

Every joy and every sting 

Temporary 

As the blooming of the rose in spring 

Live well and learn to die 

Soon in the dust you'll lie 

With everything you know 

Cruel death will not spare 

The wise, the young or fair 

Let us drain this cup of woe 

All you see 

Every thing and every friend 

Temporary 

A love you thought would never end 

Every love and every dream 

And every joy and every sting 

Temporary 

The lullaby your mother would sing