Throw the world off your shoulders tonight Mr. Smith   Throw the world off your shoulders tonight Mr. Smith      He's been looking now for a long time   It seems the more he looks the less he wants to see   He turned to the west for a long time   He turned to the east then he turned to the west again      If there's a heaven above, in the meantime   If there's a heaven above, let it be near   If there's a heaven above, in the meantime   Then let it be near, let it be near to me      We've been talking now for a long time   It seems the more we speak the less we seem to say   If there's a hell below in the meantime   Then let us shut up unless we want to pray      He saw everything real too clearly   So close that the bones would show   And to see everything so clearly   Isn't always the best thing you know      If there's a heaven above, in the meantime   If there's a heaven above then let it be near   If there's a heaven above, in the meantime   Let it be near, let it be near to me      Throw the world off your shoulders tonight Mr. Smith   Throw the world off your shoulders tonight Mr. Smith      Throw the world off your shoulders tonight Mr. Smith   Throw the world off your shoulders tonight Mr. Smith      Throw the world off your shoulders tonight Mr. Smith   Throw the world off your shoulders tonight Mr. Smith