The wind is blowing down the quiet river   A shining road to carry you along   Oh baby boy, my love will last forever   If you're to live, I must give you up to God      I know our God will guide, protect and keep you   Teach you faith and hold you by the heart   Though your mother's heart is broken by your leaving   Our Father knows just who He is and who you are      I wish that life wasn't always ending up this way   With Heaven's love at stake and hell to pay   But you in God's loving plan might be the missing part   You must live, so I give you to His heart      The wind, it blows you down the silent river   A shining road that leaves me all alone   A life for you is worth losing you forever   Someday we'll stand in God's fair land forever home      I wish that life wasn't always ending up this way   With Heaven's love at stake and hell to pay   But you, in God's loving plan, might be the missing part   You must live, so I give you to His heart      I wish that life wasn't always ending up this way   With Heaven's love at stake and hell to pay   But you, in God's loving plan, might be the missing part   You must live, so I give you to His heart