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It Could Make You Cry

by Brett Dennen

on Hope For The Hopeless (2008)

Snowflakes falling on an old plantation
Buzzards circling above a landfill
Old friends fall into a conversation
Doldiers in the sand are standing still

Mermaid walks into a fleet of fishermen
Chattering children lift their ears to the sky
Skeptics stare in fascination

I have seen so much beauty
It could make you cry

Fire on the hillside raging
I hear my lover calling
Tears are falling
Tears are falling

Widows walk with bouquets of roses
Cardinals flaunt their feathers as they fly
Women flop with flames under their noses

I have seen so much beauty
It could make you cry

Why, why, why, why
Why, why, why, why
Why?

Fire on the hillside raging
I hear my lover calling calling
Tears are falling
Tears are falling

Damsels dressed in all the stylish fashions
Trees in the city all strung with lights
Broken hearts meet with uncontrollable passion

I have seen so much beauty
It could make you cry


And the Hare Krishna clattering chorus
In the courtyard Dervishes dancing in a park nearby
Love professed to the point on a postcard

I have seen so much beauty
It could make you cry

I have seen so much beauty
It could make you cry

I have seen so much beauty
It could make you cry