If I Had A Heart

Joni Mitchell · Other Songs - Joni Mitchell

Holy war, genocide, suicide

Hate and cruelty

How can this be holy?

If I had a heart I'd cry



These ancient tales

The good go to heaven

And the wicked ones burn in hell

Ring the funeral bells

If I had a heart I'd cry



There's just too many people now, too little land

Much, too much desire

You feel so feeble now, it's so out of hand

Big bombs and barbed wire

We've set our lovely sky, our lovely sky on fire



There's just too many people now and too little land

Too much rage and desire

Makes you feel so feeble now, it's so out of hand

Big bombs and barbed wire

Can't you see our destiny?

We are making this earth our funeral pyre



Holy earth, how can we heal you?

Cover you like a blight

Strange birds of appetite

If I had a heart I'd cry



If I had a heart I'd cry

If I had a heart I'd cry