much faster than the blink of an eye lightning will flash and he ll split the sky nobody knows the day or the time the trumpet will sound and we will arise when heaven calls and this life is over we ll stand before our god and savior when heaven calls we must be ready to trade these mortal things for immortality when heaven calls for every man there is a time to love and to laugh to live and to die so i m living for the one who is love and i m dying to hear him say well done when heaven calls and this life is over i ll stand before my god and savior when heaven calls i will be ready to trade these mortal things for immortality when heaven calls now behold the lamb who takes away my sin the splendor of paradise will welcome me with arms opened wide when heaven calls and this life is over we ll stand before our god and savior when heaven calls i must you must be ready to trade these mortal things for immortality when heaven calls