Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven (A Walk Down Stairs)
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Written by Loretta Lynn ©1965, 1993 Sure Fire Music Company Inc. (BMI) [lyrics from B Collision version] Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. Lord, I wanna go to heaven but I don't wanna die. Though I long for the day when I'll have new birth, Still I love livin' here on earth. Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. Once upon a time there lived a man and his name was Hezeki'. He walked with God both day and night, but he didn't wanna die. He cried, "Oh Lord, please let me live, death is close I know." God smiled down on Hezeki' and gave him fifteen years to go. When Jesus lived here on this earth, he knew his father's plan. He knew that he must give his life to save the souls of men. When Judas had betrayed him, our father heard him cry, He was brave until his death but he didn't wanna die. About
from http://www.davidcrowderband.com/band/crowder/acollision.php 'last summer we were on the bus leisurely browsing through television channels when we halted on an episode of the wilburn brothers variety show, on the rural farm delivery network, as they announced, “and now, miss loretta lynn!” it cut from the brothers to a young loretta holding a guitar. she opened her mouth and, accapella, the coal miners daughter sang, “everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die!” her voice was in my head a month later when a close friend was diagnosed with cancer and told it was terminal. i decided this phrase would open a collision. i didn’t speak of loretta’s song to my friend. well after we had finished recording, i saw her backstage in atlanta georgia and she said to me, in unknowing confirmation, “it’s not that i’m afraid to die. i mean i want to go to heaven. i just don’t want to die.” i knew exactly what she meant.' |