It was a fatal blow
Just to hear the bell
The crowd was up the side of the bluff
And the mountain fell
Then a one-way ride
Through the graveyard gates
The prettiest song you're never gonna hear
Until it's too late
Nearer my God,
Nearer my God,
Nearer my God,
she came to me
Said it don't matter
how the story's told
About these growing souls
I broke through eternal skies
To the Caribbean Sea
Busted his flaps at the foot of hope and roam
The halfway tree
Where the endless song
is carried out on the wind
Deep in the night, the terror and the toll
She came in
Nearer my God,
Nearer my God,
Nearer my God,
it came to me
Said it don't matter
how the story's told
About these growing souls