The Wings That Fly Us Home Lyrics - John Denver

This song appears on two albums, and was first released on the Spirit album. It also appears on the Country Classics album. 

There are many ways of being in this circle we call life 

A wise man seeks an answer, burns his candle through the night 

Is a jewel just a pebble that found a way to shine 

Is a hero's blood more righteous than a hobo's sip of wine 

Did I speak to you one morning on some distant world away 

Did you save me from an arrow, did you lay me in a grave 

Were we brothers on a journey, did you teach me how to run 

Were we broken by the waters, did I lie you in the sun 

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I dreamed you were a prophet in a meadow 

I dreamed I was a mountain in the wind 

I dreamed you knelt and touched me with a flower 

I awoke with this: a flower in my hand 

I know that love is seeing all the infinite in one 

In the brotherhood of creatures; who the father, who the son 

The vision of your goodness will sustain me through the cold 

Take my hand now to remember when you find yourself alone 

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And the spirit fills the darkness of the heavens 

It fills the endless yearning of the soul 

It lives within a star too far to dream of 

It lives within each part and is the whole 

It's the fire and the wings that fly us home 

Fly us home, fly us home 

Words by Joe Henry, music by John Denver