The Pearl

O the dragons are gonna fly tonight
 They're circling low and inside tonight
 It's another round in the losing fight
 Out along the great divide tonight.
 We are aging soldiers in an ancient war
 Seeking out some half remembered shore
 We drink our fill and still we thirst for more
 Asking if there's no heaven what is this hunger for?
 Our path is worn our feet are poorly shod
 We lift up our prayer against the odds
 And fear the silence is the voice of God.
 And we cry allelujah, allelujah
 We cry allelujah.
 Sorrow is constant and the joys are brief
 The seasons come and bring no sweet relief
 Time is a brutal but a careless theif
 Who takes our lot but leaves behind the grief.
 It is the heart that kills us in the end
 Just one more old broken bone that cannot mend
 As it was now and ever shall be amen
 And we cry allelujah, allelujah
 We cry allelujah.
 So there'll be no guiding light for you and me
 We are not sailors lost out on the sea
 We were always headed toward eternity
 Hoping for a glimpse of Gaililee.
 Like falling stars from the universe we are hurled
 Down through the long loneliness of the world
 Until we behold the pain become the pearl
 Cryin' allelujah, allelujah
 We cry allelujah.
 And we cry allelujah, allelujah
 We cry allelujah...