The Pearl Lyrics - Hickory Wind - Emmylou Harris

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. 

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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. 

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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...