Imagine Heaven

Lyrics

[Intro ☕][Energy: Low]
(piano alone — single repeating pattern)
(warm, unhurried, like light coming through a window)
(no rush, no agenda)

[Verse 1 ☕][Energy: Low]
Imagine there's a heaven
I know it's hard to see
Not the one with gates and ledgers
Not the one used to divide you and me

But a love so wide and permanent
It holds the broken and the whole
Not a reward for the compliant
But a home
For every soul

[Pre-Chorus][Energy: Low-Mid]
(piano lifts slightly, still sparse)
I hear what you were looking for John
I hear the longing underneath the words
You wanted peace without the posturing
You wanted love
Without the hurt

[Chorus ☕][Energy: Mid]
(piano opens, warm — still no drums)
Imagine finding peace
Not by emptying the heavens
But by letting heaven
Finally
Fill you

Imagine finding home
Not in a world with nothing left to fight for
But in something worth
Living
For

Come see what I found
It doesn't look like what they told you
Come see what I found
It's quieter
And truer
And it holds

[Verse 2 ☕][Energy: Low]
(drops back to just piano and voice)
Imagine all the countries
Laying down the thing that made them cruel
Not because they ceased to be themselves
But because something larger
Changed the rules

And imagine all possessions
Held with open hands not iron fists
Not because we own nothing
But because we know
That love
Persists

Beyond the thing you're holding
Beyond the border and the name
The peace you were imagining
Was always pointing
At the same
Flame

[Pre-Chorus][Energy: Low-Mid]
(violin enters for the first time — barely there)
I hear what you were looking for John
I hear it in every word you wrote
You wanted what the broken church had buried
Underneath its need
To own
The boat

[Chorus ☕][Energy: Mid]
Imagine finding peace
Not by emptying the heavens
But by letting heaven
Finally
Fill you

Imagine finding home
Not in a world with nothing left to fight for
But in something worth
Living
For

Come see what I found
It doesn't look like what they told you
Come see what I found
It's quieter
And truer
And it holds

[Bridge 😭][Energy: Low]
(piano alone — single notes, vast space between them)
I know why you imagined it away
The crusades
The corruption
The cross used as a sword
The heaven promised to the powerful
The poor left to afford
Their own salvation

(violin enters, aching)
I know why the institution
Made you want to empty out the sky

But what if the sky
Was never theirs to empty
What if the love
Was always
Still
There

Underneath the religion
Underneath the war
Underneath the centuries
Of getting it
Wrong

A shepherd
Still looking
For the ones
Who got lost

[Bridge 🔥][Energy: Mid]
(piano becomes slightly fuller — still no drums)
(violin lifts, warm not triumphant)
And I'm not asking you to swallow
What was shoved down throats
Before

I'm asking you to imagine
Something quieter
Than that

A love that doesn't need
Your compliance
A peace that doesn't need
Your performance
A home that was never
Closed

[Final Chorus ☕🔥][Energy: Mid-High]
(soft brushed drums enter for the first time — barely there)
(violin and piano together, warm and open)
Imagine finding peace
Real peace
Not the absence of heaven
But the presence
Of the one
Who made it

Imagine finding home
Not at the end of emptying
But at the beginning
Of being
Found

You may say I'm a dreamer
(I heard you John)
But I'm not the only one

I found what you were dreaming of
It has a name
It has a face
It has a shepherd's
Hands

Come see
Come see
Come see
What I found

[Outro ☕][Energy: Low][Fade Out]
(piano returns alone — same opening pattern)
(violin fades on one long warm note)
(vast space between each note)

Imagine

...peace

It's already
Here