If life is a river
Your heart is a boat
And just like a water-baby
Born to float
And if life is a wild wind
That blows way on high
Then your heart is Amelia
Dying to fly
Heaven knows no frontiers
And I’ve seen heaven in your eyes
And if life is a barroom
In which we must wait
’round the man with his fingers
On the ivory gates
Where we sing until dawn
Of our fears and our fates
And we stack all the dead men
In self-addressed crates
In your eyes faint as the singing
of a lark
That somehow this dark night
Is warmer for the spark
Warmer for the spark
To hold us ’til the day
When fear will lose its grip
And heaven has its way
Heaven knows no frontiers
And I’ve seen heaven in your eyes
If your life is a rough bed
Of brambles and nails
And your spirit’s a slave
To man’s whips and man’s jails
And you thirst and you hunger
For justice and right
Then your heart is a pure flame
Of man’s constant night
In your eyes faint as the singing
of a lark
That somehow this dark night
Is warmer for the spark
Warmer for the spark
To hold us ’til the day
When fear will lose its grip
And heaven has its way
And heaven has its way
When all will harmonise
And know what’s in our hearts
The dream will realise
Heaven knows no frontiers
And I’ve seen heaven in your eyes
Heaven knows no frontiers
And I’ve seen heaven in your eyes
- Written by Jimmy MacCarthy
Jimmy MacCarthy 