Man cannot live without a dream
Believing elsewise is extreme
How difficult without a cause
Our lives are dull and lack applause
There is a vision all do need
To raise each up, to help succeed
We have a God, be not afraid
He is our Friend, our Help, our Aid
And in the end when life seems done
Tis when our journey’s just begun !
Lord save us from old Satan’s might
And guide us through each lonesome night
Protect us as we wend our way
From morning’s light till end of day
Forsake us not, we do believe,
We’re grateful for gifts we receive.
Lord, how much longer must we wait
To greet You at God’s Golden Gate ?
Oh blessed Lord, please hear my plea
And save a piece of sky for me
A dusky eve or starlit night
Perhaps a rainbow’s sweet delight.
And for your pleasure, I will raise
A song of love and joyous praise
Come join me Lord and hear me pray
That you’ll take me with you to stay !
Sometimes I want to yell and scream
To exit from this madd’ning scene
The world I love is gone from here
It shall not ever reappear.
Instead all that I’ve valued so
Packed up its bags and had to go
Tis sad the time has gone
No reason left to carry on.
Small matter what we say or do
Our stay on earth is overdue
Let’s count our blessings one by one
And thank the Lord this journey’s done !
I hear the train move on the track
I think it says ” click-clack, click-clack “,
And wings upon the breeze to here
Appearing to be ever near.
Our journey soon will reach its end
Without our luggage or dear friend
We’ve bid goodbye as trav’lers do,
Goodbye, so long and toodle-oo !
I hear the whistle of the train
Reverberating in my brain
Its lonesome wail echoes so clear
And sends a song into my ear
There is a mystery you bring
With every plaintive note you sing.
Oh how I wish to ride with you
Until my sojourn here is through
But that can never be, my friend
Our journey lasts until its end !
Before I entered in life’s maze
I’d been alive a thousand days
I walked and talked and learned to sing
Good manners came with everything.
My mother, she was but sixteen
Had never been a high school queen
She was my best friend my whole life
Through happy days and those of strife.
The hard times came, then went away
But left the scars of yesterday
Sometimes when I do quiet sit
Those memories may be relit.
I’ve often wondered how we did
When daddy died, I was a kid
Today the days just seem to fly
I must learn now to say goodbye !
