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.



SH