My Home In The Sky - Greg Brown

Some say that heaven is beyond the blue

But I’ve done some looking, and I don’t think that’s true

Lookin' up from the flatlands, birds and clouds floating by

I’d say that heaven is about a thousand feet high

It’s my

Home in the sky, my home in the sky

The hawk makes the circles through which the swallows fly

When the world is too much down on my back I lie

And look up with longin' at my home in the sky

Well I don’t need no angels with big shakin' wings

Or halos or harps or none of those things

I just want to do what the thunderheads do

And see the sunset and the moonrise from a new point of view

And that’s my

And sometimes I wanna leave the sad little details

And put my crow’s nest up and stretch out my sails

But when my life is over and it’s time to go

I’d like to see how they’re all doing below

From my