Movement III - Crypt

(album: Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio - 1991)

[Shanty:]
And so it was that I had grown
Into a youth uncertain, thrown
Amongst the lions and the lambs
To pass the time we watched the children dance

I used to come here when this place was a crypt
Now the music plays
Oh don't you sometimes wish they'd stick to the script
As the local Preacher says

Rain from heaven will blessings bring
Behold the harvest grown. R
Ian from heaven falls down on you
But me, I feel alone

[Preacher (sympathetically):]
Alone

[Shanty:]
Alone

[Preacher:]
If they won't come to worship
God in a church
Something must be done
We have to instigate a nationwide search
For a way to make it fun
Rain from heaven will blessings bring
Behold the harvest grown

[Shanty and Preacher:]
Rain from heaven falls down on you

[Shanty:]
But me, I feel alone
Alone

Here now
What am I doing here now?
Hear me
Why do you never hear me?
Why do you never hear me?

[Mary Dee (as half-ghost):]
I'll always be here
I'll never leave you
I'll always be in your mind
Dreams of the future
Ghosts of the past left behind

[Women's chorus:]
(Ah)

[Shanty:]
Thought I had a vision
Lying in a graveyard
Thought I heard a melody inside
Could it be the future
Speaking with the voice of those who died?

Thought I saw a kingdom
Happiness and laughter
Somewhere for an innocent to play
Is there any justice?
Do these things still happen in this way?

[Mary Dee:]
Don't tell him no
It isn't fair
For he was told by those who know
There was love everywhere

[Shanty:]
Love everywhere

[Mary Dee:]
Now's the time to tell him
While his mother's crying
Break it to him gently as she weeps
Let him know his father
Will be well looked after, where he sleeps

[Chorus (ghosts):]
He's sleeping amongst us
He's in our dreams
Don't worry. He's with us now

[Shanty:]
Don't say it's so
It isn't fair
For I was told by those who know
There was love everywhere

Alone