Prefab Sprout - Pearly Gates video free download

Paddy McAloon's 'Pearly Gates', accompanied by photographs of poets known, amongst other things, for their meditations on mortality.

Feel the sun upon your back

Someone somewhere wants to steal it

Pray each night you'll catch the thief

But while you sleep he comes and takes it

"Does that make you think, little girl?"

"Doesn't it just, little boy"

There'll be no stampede on the Pearly Gates

I'll say, "After you"

You'll say, "I don't mind the wait"

There'll be no stampede on those imposing doors

Naked and afraid, cowering, we crawl on all fours

See the smile on her young face

Watch life casually erase it

Now I know she's all grown up

She wears a look I can't quite place yet

"What makes you cry, little girl?"

"Maybe I'm scared, little boy"

There'll be no stampede on the Pearly Gates

I'll say, "After you"

You'll say, "I don't mind the wait"

There'll be no stampede on those imposing doors

Naked and afraid, cowering, we crawl on all fours

There'll be no stampede on the Pearly Gates

I'll say, "After you"

You'll say, "I don't mind the wait"