The Flower That Shattered The Stone

This song appears on five albums - plus twice with a reprise and a duet on the album of the same title. it was first released on the flower that shattered the stone album. it has been released o

Stonehaven sunrise, a portrait and the john denver collection - calypso albums.





The earth is our mother just turning around

With her trees in the forest and roots underground

Our father above us who's sigh is the wind

Paint us a rainbow without any end



As the river runs freely the mountain does rise

Let me touch with my fingers and see with my eyes

In the hearts of the children of pure love still roams

Like a bright star in heaven that lights our way home

Like the flower that shattered the stone



Sparrows find freedom beholding the sun

In the infinite beauty we're all joined in one

I reach out before me and look to the sky

Then i hear someone whisper it's something pass by



As the river runs freely the mountain does rise

Let me touch with my fingers and see with my eyes

In the hearts of the children of pure love still roams

Like a bright star in heaven that lights our way home

Like the flower that shattered the stone

Like a bright star in heaven that lights our way home

Like the flower that shattered the stone



Words and music by joe henry and john jarvis

Corrected by "a. elizabeth hawley" <ahawley@gustavus.edu>


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