Story Behind The Song

This song won First Prize in the Gospel category at the Merle Watson Memorial Festival in Wilkesboro, North Carolina. The contest was judged by country music great Hal Ketchum and folk great Tom Paxton. I wrote "Forgiveness" out of a deep sense of sorrow

Song Description

A stately anthem using the imagery of water against stone to symbolize how the hard heart must ultimately surrender to the soft persistence of love in the difficult act of forgiving. Vocals by renowned British diva Maddy Prior. Recorded in England and co-

Lyrics

FORGIVENESS

From the master's hand
Morning sends the rain
To grace a barren land

As the day began
Tender morning stars still
Shone against the sand

Wake and understand
Who forgave the child
Must now forgive the man

Fall upon your knees and beg forgiveness
Cast your bitter stones upon the ground
Cross the seven seas to lend forgiveness
All eternity will sing the sound

So the water flows,
Soft as mercy falls
to smoothe the rocks below.

But the heart of stone
Blazons mercy's name
In blood, and blood alone.

Fall upon your knees and beg forgiveness
Cast your bitter stones upon the ground
Cross the seven seas to lend forgiveness
All eternity will sing the sound

Now the hour to say
Kinder words we owed
And lost along the way

The closing of the day
When the hands of time
Shall mold a shallow grave

Fall upon your knees and beg forgiveness
Cast your bitter stones upon the ground
Cross the seven seas to lend forgiveness
All eternity will sing...
...Will sing the sound

Playlist Creator	Playlist Name	Date Added
Barboline's Bleed Rail Project	My Top Songs	9/10/2007