HEAVEN HEREAFTER Lyrics

What if

The idea of a blissful heaven

Beyond this life on earth

Was simply just an imagined place

Created in the mind of man

That allowed him to better cope

With suffering

Perhaps heaven

Doesn't exist at all in reality

Outside of the mind

What if

The notion of an afterlife

Is just a pacifier we give to ourselves

To soothe and comfort us

From the thought that this life

With all of its pain and disease

And discomfort

Is all there is

That there must be some recompense

Somewhere elsewhere

Beyond here

For not being allowed to stay

Or to take all of our loved ones

And worldly possessions with us

When we're forced to pass on

Maybe the existence of heaven

Is just what we've convinced ourselves of

So we don't have to face a reality

That the brevity of this short life

Is all we get

And there's nothing else after

That those gone before us

Are not gone completely

That we will see them each and all again

In an abundant life hereafter

Somewhere out there

What if the haunting finality of a last breath

Is just too much for man to accept

And thus he appeases himself in the belief

That there is more to see

In a life

After death