Lyrics If I Had a Heart - Joni Mitchell

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.