Billy Gilman "Peaceable Kingdom" |
The leopard with harmless kid lay down And not one savage beast was seen to frown The wolf did with the lamb kin dwell in peace His grim carniviorous nature there did cease The lion with the fatling on did move And a little child was leading them in love Long ago there was a young painter Who had a dream that every creature came And stood assembled by his side And he painted the sight that had sweetened his night Fully one hundred times before he died A kid and lion and a snake and a child Wide-eyed and formal and smilin' like the sun had stopped And time had ceased to move And the wolf and the lamb came and ate from his hand And a man-child was leading them in love chorus Oh, my friend, have you seen all the lines and the spaces The colors that the young painter sees In the peaceable kingdom that shines in the faces of people from more gentle times then these I find myself adrift these days An endless maze of ends and ways And the world just seems so crazy to me here But look away, look away,back or forward from today To the visions of either fools or seers CHORUS Such a beautiful place full of joy, full of grace It was bathed in a saintly yellow light Too unlearned to know that such things can't be so He could only believe that they might CHORUS Lyric from www.lyricmania.com |