What Do I Know

I have a friend who just turned eighty-eight

And she just shared with me that she's afraid of dying

I sit here years from her experience

And try to bring her comfort, I try to bring her comfort

But what do I know?

What do I know?

She grew up singin' 'bout the glory land

And she would testify how Jesus changed her life

It was easy to have faith when she was thirty-four

But now her friends are dying, and death is at her door

And what do I know?

What do I know?

Well, I don't know that there are harps in Heaven

Or the process for earning your wings

And I don't know of bright lights at the ends of tunnels

Or any of these things

She lost her husband after sixty years

And as he slipped away, she still had things to say

Death can be so inconvenient

You try to live and love, it comes and interrupts

And what do I know?

What do I know?

Well, I don't know that there are harps in Heaven

Or the process for earning your wings

And I don't know of bright lights at the ends of tunnels

Or any of those things

Ohh

Oh, what do I know?

Really, what do I know?

Well, I don't know that there are harps in Heaven

Or the process for earning your wings

And I don't know of bright lights at the ends of tunnels

Or any of those things

But I know to be absent from this body

Is to be present with the Lord

And from what I know of Him

That must be pretty good

Oh, I know to be absent from this body

Is to be present with the Lord

And from what I know of Him

That must be very good

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