Hmm, hey, yo, cabin in the sky, what we see in the dream

When we wake, never can we see what it means

A picture stands alongside of my memory

To help honor those I lost, not the end of me

But still in disbelief, lost my brother Dave

But what keeps me sane from the grief

Is to stay rooted in if the wind gets severe

Every line in the song holds love in the tears

We all hope to climb, end on an acre or two

Up in the heavenly blue where there's no rent owed

Or urban life sewed in the clouds

Gentrification in the realm ain't allowed

The thought that soon becomes

the tiniest when around my pops

Who's blessed to celebrate his ninetieth

Standing thankful for life

I wonder if he thinks about the loved ones

who paid a different price

Which in comparison shows

the extent of what my brother got to see

to live a life so dense

Thought we have forever to do more together

And all that we painted can't ever be rinsed

True connections can never be severed

Defining friendship to storms that got weathered

The mule and the forty old don't seem greener

than the acres in the promised land from the redeemer hand

Yeah, understand that my tears can't stop me

from seeing those cabins in the sky

We're waiting to get a view of all the faces

we loved that slipped away

It makes me wonder when it's over

will I get a cabin in the sky?

And how will my family deal with it all

when they watch me slip away?

Melodies of wonder are shared

in celebrating them cabins in the sky

Never a dry eye when you go searching

for the ones that slipped away

Those ascended from the timeline early

may you reach that cabin in the sky

And know that you will be cherished

by those who were hurt you slipped away

Understand that the tears can't stop me

from seeing them cabins in the sky

Like we try seeing in the dream

When we wake, never can we see what it means

Just trying to receive our daily bread together

No one's the king, we all led together

Seems these days we vanish like mismanaged money

Instead of staying, but wed forever to life

Those who touch your heart can no longer be touched

so you miss 'em so much

That it feels like blessings arrive on time

But hardships always arrive earlier

but I became worldlier too, though

Heartache deserves a good mourning

so my attitude is gratitude when the Sun comes on it

And we'll stay looking above

and pray we asking from a launch pad of love

And, hey, let us rejoice and let your voice

travel to them cabins in the sky

So they may reach the ones who we love that had to slip away

It makes me wonder when it's over

will I get my cabin in the sky?

And how will my family deal

with it all when they watch me slip away?

Melodies of wonder are shared

in celebrating them cabins in the sky

Never a dry eye when you go searching

for the ones that slipped away

Those who ascend from the timeline early

may you reach that cabin in the sky

And know that you will be cherished

by those who heard you slipped away