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 on the 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"Modello di vita da non imitare
se leggi sulla porta c'e' scritto "non entrare"
tu non puoi sapere gli intrallazzi dello stato
sennò come farebbero a rubare al pensionato
La classe operaia, la gente come noi
lavora, si sbatte, per gli interessi suoi,
ormai tutti lo sanno il ministro cosa fa
ma guai se lo toccate, lui ha l'immunita'
Disgusto totale per questa societa'
coperta da caviale e da partiti in vendita
chi offre di piu' si aggiudica il potere
davanti a questi stronzi non ho nulla da temere
Politici falliti vanno in televisione
e parlano di ecologia e vivisezione
mentre le loro bestie coperte d'oro e ciccia
vaneggiano per strada mostrando la pelliccia
Il porco coi bagagli se ne andava in Tunisia
in una villettina 30 volte casa mia
se penso che un mattone gliel'hai comprato tu
per penitenza appenditi, ma con la testa in giu'