From the recording Everything Else Was Noise
A Small Plot Up In Heaven
“A Small Plot Up In Heaven” is a song about imagining Heaven not as something grand or unreachable, but as a place of simple peace, mercy, and home.
This song does not ask for streets of gold, crowns, silver, shining gates, or a mansion on a hill. It asks for a little patch of ground, a quiet porch, a fence for the critters, morning stillness, and a sky full of grace. That image says a lot about the kind of faith this song carries — humble, tender, and rooted in love more than reward.
At its heart, this song is about the gospel I try to live by: kindness freely shown, bread on the table, mercy for the hurting, and pulling one more stranger from a place where they feel alone.
“A Small Plot Up In Heaven” is also a love song for every animal ever cared for, every companion missed, and every gentle soul we hope to see again. It closes the album with a prayer for peace, love, mercy, and grace — and the hope that, when the road down here finally runs out, love will still know our name.
— Lane Alan Dumser
Lyrics
I don’t need no streets of gold
No mansion on a hill
Just give me a little patch of ground
Where the mornin’ air is still
A fence to hold my critters close
A porch where peace can stay
A sky so full of mercy
It takes my breath away
Sing me to heaven
When my road runs out down here
Let the angels hum low and gentle
Let His love draw near
I don’t need crowns or silver
No shinin’ gates to claim
Just a small plot up in heaven
Wrapped in peace, love, mercy n’ grace
That’s the gospel I live by
That’s the hope I hold
Not in what a man can gather
Not in what his hands can own
It’s bread upon the table
It’s kindness freely shown
It’s pullin’ one more stranger
From a place they feel alone
Let my dogs be a-waitin’
Where the clover meets the shade
Tails still waggin’ by the pasture
Like they never went away
Let every critter I ever cared for
Find a place beside that stream
Safe beneath the hand of Jesus
Livin’ gentle, wild, and free
Sing me to heaven
Soft as evenin’ rain
To that small plot up in heaven
Where love still knows my name
I don’t need crowns or silver
No shinin’ gates to claim
Just a small plot up in heaven
Wrapped in peace, love, mercy n’ grace
That’s the gospel I live by
That’s the prayer I pray
Just a small plot up in heaven
Wrapped in peace, love, mercy n’ grace.