I see the distant smoke across the waterway
I'd swim a thousand miles just to hear you say
The words that never come when you need them most
To dry your eyes out

Is it your mother's tongue or your father's ghosts?
Remember sticks and stones and how they broke your bones
Pain is how you learn, boy, you learned a lot
When they hit you in the face
and you begged them all to stop

Until you rose up again
And you tried your best to surrender
Bowed down your head
Then you looked up to the sky and said

My God, what a beautiful scene
Now I know what you mean
Wanna stay here forever
God, what a beautiful scene
Now I know what you mean
You're my gateway to heaven

From underneath the dust, you see the curtain call
Can't bear to watch another generation stall
To the hands of greed that will take it all
And cut your heart out

See the face in the shadow
Just a thread in the seams
We'll be ghosts by tomorrow
Just a day in a dream

But you'll rise up again
And you'll fight against the surrender
My friends, don't wait
Just look up to the sky and say

My God, what a beautiful scene
Now I know what you mean
Wanna stay here forever
God, what a beautiful scene
Now I know what you mean
You're my gateway to heaven

God, what a beautiful scene
Now I know what you mean
Wanna stay here forever
God, what a beautiful scene
Now I know what you mean
You're my gateway to heaven

Gateway to heaven
You're my gateway to heaven
Gateway to heaven
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