What Are They Doing in Heaven Today? Songtext
von Okkervil River

One, two, three

What are they doing in heaven today?
Where sin and sorrow are all gone away
"Peace abounds by the river," they say
What are they doing there now?

I′m thinking of friends who I used to know
Who lived and they suffered in this world below
If they've gone up to heaven, then I′d like to know
What are they doing there now?


What are they doing in heaven today?
Where doubt and sin are all gone away
"Peace abounds by the water," they say
What are they doing there now?

There are some who are poor and often despised
They look up to heaven with tear blinded eyes
And some who are heedless, in death, do they cry?
What are they doing there now?

What are they doing in heaven today?
Where doubt and sin are all gone away
"Peace abounds by the river," they say
What are they doing there now?

And what are they doing there now?