There's a Whole Lotta Heaven - Iris DeMent

There’s a lot of people talkin' 'bout getting in the gloryland way

Walkin' straight and narrow, trying to get to heaven someday

But I’ve been saved by the love of the people livin' right here

And there’s a whole lotta heaven shinin' in this river of tears

We don’t have a prophet to tell us what our future holds

We’ve only got each other and the love we carry in our souls

Though this world’s full of trouble and the path we walk is never clear

There’s still this whole lotta heaven shinin' in a river of tears

There’s a whole lotta heaven shinin' in this river of tears

You pull back the curtain little diamonds will appear

You can take your streets of gold if you want 'em

And your mansion so dear

But I’ll take the whole lotta heaven shinin' in this river of tears

This life that I’m livin' is like a ship that don’t want to be steered

Sometimes I wake up in the mornin' thinkin'

I could buckle beneath the weight of my own fears

It’s some pain, some strain and some struggle

But I persevere

I got a whole lotta heaven shinin' in my river of tears

There’s a whole lotta heaven shinin' in this river of tears

You pull back the curtain little diamonds will appear

You can take your streets of gold if you want 'em

And your mansion so dear

But I’ll take the whole lotta heaven shinin'

I want a whole lotta heaven shinin'

I love a whole lotta heaven shinin'

In this river of tears