Cloud in the Sky
You Are Correct
Death · Grief Without Heaven · Distasteful Platitudes · Emotional Indie Rock
#VERSE
I didn’t need their comfort
Those tired phrases dipped in lies
She is dead, I’m trudging through grief
They whisper of Heaven and point to the skies
“You know she’s in a better place”
“Finally, she will be at peace”
“She’s in the clouds smiling down on you”
“Her earthly body’s been released”
#PRE-CHORUS
I just smile and thank them
Won’t reveal that I disagree
Let them warm themselves in light
But each phrase is a dark blanket piled on me
#CHORUS
Cloud in the sky
Cloud in the sky
Do you hold heaven
As you float by?
Are your heavy raindrops
Tears from her eyes
As she gazes down into my life?
Cloud in the sky
#VERSE
She lived as a believer
I knew she had her doubts
Buried her questions in golden hymns
And fist-shaking sermons the pastor shouts
I once danced within that dream
Believed till I was twenty-three
That’s when the clouds all swept away
And I saw clear reality
#PRE-CHORUS
Now I stand on her turf
The church I once called my own
And suffer in my silence
As the pastor shouts “God called her home!”
#CHORUS
Cloud in the sky
Cloud in the sky
Is she playing piano up there?
Having sing-a-longs with those who died?
Is your thunder just her laughter
As she smiles on my life?
Is your cotton candy Heaven really true?
Or are you just one of their lies?
No need to answer—I already know
Cloud in the sky
#BRIDGE
Believers speak poetically
Downplaying what cannot be
Wrap their words in gold-thread shrouds
Praise cinnamon-scented kingdoms in the clouds
Share childlike stories of Heaven and Hell
Tell me with conviction she’s happy and well
#INSTRUMENTAL
#PRE-CHORUS
Now their butterfly thoughts flutter in my head
Find myself talking to her although she’s dead
Through the blanket of grief, I scream out loud
And shout my questions at inanimate clouds
#CHORUS
So…
Cloud in the sky
Cloud in the sky
Do you hold heaven
As you float by?
Will we dance in white fluff ballrooms
After we die?
Will you block the sun to show our sadness
To those we left behind?
#CHORUS
Cloud in the sky
Cloud in the sky
Can you leave me alone
As I grieve that she died?
Our conversation ends now
And you go floating by
I see you as you really are
Just a cloud in the sky
#OUTRO
I see you as you really are
Just a cloud in the sky
I can grieve her without you
Cloud in the sky
Goodbye