Tekst :

Well I just heard the news today
It seems my life is going to change
I closed my eyes, begin to pray
Then tears of joy stream down my face

With arms wide open
Under the sunlight
Welcome to this place
Ill show you everything
With arms wide open

Well I dont know if Im ready
To be the man I have to be
Ill take a breath, take her by my side
We stand in awe, weve created life

With arms wide open
Under the sunlight
Welcome to this place
Ill show you everything
With arms wide open
Now everything has changed
Ill show you love
Ill show you everything
With arms wide open

If I had just one wish
Only one demand
I hope hes not like me
I hope he understands
That he can take this life
And hold it by the hand
And he can greet the world

With arms wide open

They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique
And a swinging hot spot
Don t it always seem to go
That you don t know what you ve got
Till it s gone
They paved paradise...

Ohhh...
Excuse me Mr, do you have the time?
Or are you so important that it stands still for you?
Excuse me Mr, won t you lend me your ear?
Or are you not only blind but do you not hear?
Excuse me Mr but isn t that your oil in the sea?
And the pollution...

With every appearance by you, blinding my eyes,
I can hardly remember the last time I felt like I do.
You re an angel disguised.

And you re lying real still,
but your heart beat is fast just like mine.
And the movie s long over,
that s three that have passed, one more s fine.

Will...

I wanna have the same last dream again
The one where I wake up and I m alive
Just as the four walls close me within
My eyes are opened up with pure sunlight

I m the first to know
My dearest friends
Even if your hope has burned with time
Anything that s dead shall be...

All night I ve wrestled Jacob s angels
And prayed with Matthew, Luke and John
Struggling to find the words to face the task
That comes upon the blood red dawn.

I ve buried men before their time
Of alcohol and blackened lung
But how to bury seven of these...