If Only It Were True (I'd Be Here With You)

Some spoke of new tomorrows When all the earthly sorrows Would hold themselves At arms length away And all the pain and strife Would vanish from this life And only love and laughter would remain If only it were true I'd be here with you Now, down the riverbank we'd pass our time Throwing out another line Underneath the sunshine Streaming through the trees And as night fell on these hills We'd look towards the starry skies And see our homes in paradise Blazing from the blue And if only it were true I'd be here with you In the funeral parlour I was told There were places for the brave and bold Somewhere nice and not too cold For them to rest their bones And one of them he spoke to me With a message from eternity - he said "Some get lost and others free But down here its all the same" And if only it were true I'd be here with you...