Liverpool Oratorio Movement 3: Crypt [Dutch translation]

[SHANTY] .............................................. video: from 21.50

And so it was that I had grown

Into a youth uncertain, thrown

Amongst the lions and the lambs

To pass the time we watched the children dance

I used to come here when this place was a crypt

Now the music plays

Oh don't you sometimes wish they'd stick to the script

As the local preacher says

Rain from heaven will blessings bring

Behold the harvest grown. R

Rain from heaven falls down on you

But me, I feel alone

[PREACHER (sympathetically)]

Alone

[SHANTY]

Alone

[PREACHER]

If they won't come to worship

God in a church

Something must be done

We have to instigate a nationwide search

For a way to make it fun

Rain from heaven will blessings bring

Behold the harvest grown

[SHANTY and PREACHER]

Rain from heaven falls down on you

[SHANTY]

But me, I feel alone

Alone

Here now

What am I doing here now?

Hear me

Why do you never hear me?

Why do you never hear me?

[MARY DEE (as half-ghost)]

I'll always be here

I'll never leave you

I'll always be in your mind

Dreams of the future

Ghosts of the past left behind

[WOMEN'S Chorus]

(Ah)

[SHANTY]

Thought I had a vision

Lying in a graveyard

Thought I heard a melody inside

Could it be the future

Speaking with the voice of those who died?

Thought I saw a kingdom

Happiness and laughter

Somewhere for an innocent to play

Is there any justice?

Do these things still happen in this way?

[MARY DEE]

Don't tell him no

It isn't fair

For he was told by those who know

There was love everywhere

[SHANTY]

Love everywhere

[MARY DEE]

Now's the time to tell him

While his mother's crying

Break it to him gently as she weeps

Let him know his father

Will be well looked after, where he sleeps

[Chorus (ghosts)]

He's sleeping amongst us

He's in our dreams

Don't worry. he's with us now

[SHANTY]

Don't say it's so

It isn't fair

For I was told by those who know

There was love everywhere

Alone

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