OUT OF THIS WORLD
Words and music by Roger Coghill
Verse 1
I know a room in heaven where the jazz musicians go
Who’ve died too young to consummate their dreams
Where Clifford Brown can solo to the tunes of Tubby Hayes
And the rhythm section changes to accommodate their themes.
Verse 2
Too soon they went, like Mozart did, but left us with such tones,
Such blissful songs that time will not forget.
Sublimely fine performances on life’s too brief a stage.
Their past becomes our future, we still hear them clearly yet.
Chorus
Django Rheinhart, Buddy Holly,
Robert Johnson, John Coltrane
Fats Navarro, Otis Redding
Jimmy Hendrix, Lady Day.
When Heaven’s gate is open,
And angels’ wings unfurled
You’ll hear them all still playing
Out of this world.
Verse 3
The nextdoor room is also filled with music, but the sounds
Are classical and stately measured themes:
Quartets with Palestrina, Chopin, Bizet, and Purcell,
From tender souls who died too young, and left behind their dreams.
Verse 4
Can you imagine orchestras where these musicians play?
An everlasting concert waits us all,
With an audience of angels, for all eternity,
When we buy the final ticket of life’s Music Festival.
Chorus
Weber, Mendelssohn, Bellini,
Mozart, Butterworth, Cobain
Boulanger and Pergolesi,
Schubert, Gershwin, and Alain.
When Heaven’s gate is open,
And angels’ wings unfurled
You’ll hear them all still playing
Out of this world.