If I Had A Heart

If I Had A Heart

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,
it 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?
We 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.

Joni Mitchell