# Los Lonely Boys "In Heaven"--bridge lyrics???

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 4, 2005, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-lonely-boys-in-heaven-bridge-lyrics/320083 "2005-09-04T19:43:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-lonely-boys-in-heaven-bridge-lyrics/320083/1 "2005-09-04T19:43:11Z")

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It starts about 2:15 on my (legally acquired) recording…the closest I can come is:

You keep scratchin’ at the shoe  
Put your best two in this, you

But it has to be something else, I’m thinkin’

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**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-lonely-boys-in-heaven-bridge-lyrics/320083/2 "2005-09-07T13:32:08Z")

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Hey! A little help here?

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**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-lonely-boys-in-heaven-bridge-lyrics/320083/3 "2005-09-07T13:38:24Z")

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Here’s what I came up with :

LOS LONELY BOYS LYRICS

“Heaven”

Save me from this prison  
Lord help me get away  
Cause only you can save me now  
From this misery  
Cause I’ve been lost in my own place  
And I’m getting’ weary  
How far is heaven  
And I know I need to change  
My ways of livin’  
How far is heaven, Lord can you tell me  
Cause I’ve been locked up way too long  
In this crazy world, how far is heaven  
I just keep on prayin’ Lord  
Just keep on livin’, how far is heaven  
Lord can you tell me, how far is heaven  
I just got to know how far, how far is heaven  
Lord can you tell me  
[translated from Spanish]  
(You that’s in a higher place  
Send me down a blessing)  
Cause I know there’s a better place  
Than this place I’m livin’, how far is heaven  
And I just got to have some faith  
And just keep on giving, how far is heaven  
I just wanna know how far

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**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-lonely-boys-in-heaven-bridge-lyrics/320083/4 "2005-09-07T16:20:21Z")

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What you hear:

> [@NoCoolUserName](#):
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> You keep scratchin’ at the shoe  
> Put your best two in this, you

What the English is (“officially”):

> [@PapSett](#):
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> (You that’s in a higher place  
> Send me down a blessing)

And in Spanish, which is what it’s sung in:

> [@](#):
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> Tú que estás en el alto Cielo  
> Échame tu bendición

Which means “You who are up in heaven, hand me down your blessing.” More or less.

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**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-lonely-boys-in-heaven-bridge-lyrics/320083/5 "2005-09-07T21:43:35Z")

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T’anks!