Once a mother stood on a corner   Tears betrayed her painted smile   She was trading in her halo   For just enough to feed her child      Then an old man, cold and hungry   Saw her crying, so he stopped   And he gave her his one possession   A shining silver pocket watch      There's no cross that love won't bear   And when you're down to your last prayer   It will be the saving grace   In the depths of your despair   There's no cross that love won't bear      So the old man found a park bench   Crawled inside and went to sleep   He lay down and went to sleep   As he drifted into slumber   He prayed the Lord his soul to keep      Then the mother with her halo   Came to him in a dream   And he woke up in a mansion   His silver watch there on it's chain      There's no cross that love won't bear   And when you're down to your last prayer   It will be the saving grace   In the depths of your despair   There's no cross that love won't bear      No, there's no cross that love won't bear