Healing Hands of Time - Joe Paulik

Written by Joe Paulik in 1990. Music audio/video recorded Nov 8 2023. BWCA nature audio/video recorded May 15 2023 on Medicine River. Lyrics:

Down in the city there's a man who never cries
As he works toward his future without relent
Denying his own conscience and the pleading of his heart
But he won't deny the healing hands of time

Security and pleasure are the products of his labor
But his goals are empty lies of the flesh
Delaying for another day the truth that makes him cower
But he can't escape the healing hands of time

Listen up now all you children don't believe them what they're sayin
Listen up now all you children of the land
Don't believe the lies of knowlege for they'll rob you of your calling
And you'll answer to the healing hands of time

The land has grown so tired of all the killing and destruction
As she lashes out her warnings for us to stop
Calling on the people here to help expel the sickness
But they spurn her as if blind and deaf and dumb

Listen up now to the children can you hear the words they're prayin
Listen up now to the children of the land
For they can see beyond the surface as their minds have not been tarnished
By the cancer and sterility of man

Follow not the masses who are walking as if dead
Comatose from Visions left unlived
The prejudice of knowledge has now stripped them of their birthright
Lord have mercy come the healing hands of time

An open mind and open heart are gifts to always treasure
And in the Earth you'll find the purity of truth
And what we do to her be sure we're doing to ourselves
So let us try and help avoid the final winter

Listen up now to the children can you hear the words they're sayin
Listen up now to the Children of the Earth
There are songs we should be singin there are things we should be doin
as we try and help avoid the final winter

Listen up now all you children can you hear me what I'm sayin
Listen up now all you Children of the Earth
Don't believe the lies of logic for they'll rob you of your birthright
And we have to help the healing hands of time

Lord have mercy come the healing hands of time
Let us try and help the healing hands of time
God have mercy come the healing hands of time