Heroes In Heaven

[Intro] Piano keys brush the dust off old parade boots Cello string hums the name no earthly tongue uses [Verse 1] They laid their rifles down where the cloud grass grows Left their worn medals by the pearly rose No more foxholes digging through the cold damp loam No more bugles screaming when the dark comes home They shared a last cigarette behind the barbed wire fence Now they pass a jar of starlight over heaven’s fence [Verse 2] One used to play fiddle on a rainy camp night One drew small doodles of his daughter’s first kite They never got to see the oak they planted rise Never got to taste the bread their wives baked nice But up here the bullet holes don’t carve no lasting scar They laugh when old war stories drift in from afar [Chorus] Oh heroes in heaven, slow dance to the cello’s drawl Piano spills soft notes over every faded wall They don’t carry weight of the names we etch in stone They just hum old blues where the quiet winds roam Heroes in heaven, no more march to the gun’s sharp call Their worn out souls finally get to stall [Bridge] I heard the cello weep a note that tastes like rain Tastes like the last letter that never reached its name The piano wraps it gentle, no sharp edge of pain Up there they’re all just boys who outran the chain No ranks, no banners, no glory’s hollow claim Just quiet warm light, and no more need to aim [Chorus] Oh heroes in heaven, slow dance to the cello’s drawl Piano spills soft notes over every faded wall They don’t carry weight of the names we etch in stone They just hum old blues where the quiet winds roam Heroes in heaven, no more march to the gun’s sharp call Their worn out souls finally get to stall [Outro] Cello fades slow, piano holds a last soft chord Somewhere a cloud foot steps on the dewy sward Heroes rest easy, their story’s softly stored