The boy only wanted to give mother something
And all of her roses had bloomed
Looking at him as he came rushing in with them
Knowing her roses were doomed
All she could see were some thorns buried deep
And the tears that he cried as she tended his wounds
But she knew it was love
It was one she could understand
He was showing his love
And that's how he hurt his hands
He still remembered that night as a child
On his mother's knee
She held him close as she opened the bible
And quietly started to read
Then seeing a picture of Jesus he cried out
Momma, he's got some scars just like me
And he knew it was love
It was one he could understand
He was showing his love
And that's how he hurt his hands
Now the boy's grown and moved out on his own
When Uncle Sam comes along
A foreign affair, but our young men were there
And luck had his number drawn
It wasn't that long till our hero was gone
He gave to a friend what he learned from the cross
Well they knew it was love
It was one they could understand
He was showing his love
And that's how he hurt his hands
It was one they could understand
He was showing his love
And that's how he hurt his hands
And all of her roses had bloomed
Looking at him as he came rushing in with them
Knowing her roses were doomed
All she could see were some thorns buried deep
And the tears that he cried as she tended his wounds
But she knew it was love
It was one she could understand
He was showing his love
And that's how he hurt his hands
He still remembered that night as a child
On his mother's knee
She held him close as she opened the bible
And quietly started to read
Then seeing a picture of Jesus he cried out
Momma, he's got some scars just like me
And he knew it was love
It was one he could understand
He was showing his love
And that's how he hurt his hands
Now the boy's grown and moved out on his own
When Uncle Sam comes along
A foreign affair, but our young men were there
And luck had his number drawn
It wasn't that long till our hero was gone
He gave to a friend what he learned from the cross
Well they knew it was love
It was one they could understand
He was showing his love
And that's how he hurt his hands
It was one they could understand
He was showing his love
And that's how he hurt his hands
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and to write about that of a child's to his mother's is a priceless example
The young boy loves his mother completely, and was looking for something beautiful to give her; something to symbolize his affection for his mother. So he found roses in the garden and thought they were beautiful like his mother, and certainly she would love a beautiful rose. And in grabbing the rose the thorns pierced his skin and he goes running to his mother. The mother helps her son, and then later they she must've been reading to him about the Bible, where the youngboys finds a connections between him and Jesus because the thorns they both had. Where Jesus had it on his head, and the young boy had thorns in his hands.
The instrumental part of the song I believe is supposed to symbolize the child growing up and he moves out from his family's home. Then come the
"When Uncle Sam comes along.
A foregin affair, but our young men are there.
And luck had his number drawn."
These words in my opinion is when the country is in war with a foreign county, the young men being the people from the country and when it goes on to say that luck had his number drawn I believe that he was called in for the draft and had to leave to fight.
Next comes
"It wasn't that long till our hero was gone, he gave to a friend what he learned from the cross."
The young child all grown up that had been sent to war was killed or he is no longer living. But in time before the boy's death he preached to his friends about Jesus.
The end..
Either way it means that a child's love, so simple, would never be forgotten.
And that he hurt his hands by trying so hard to tell his mother he loved her, and they both knew that the love was there, and this fact never needed anything else but the mother and child.
That's my take on it. :]
(btw, I'm not Christian and although I do not believe in Jesus as the messiah, I still believe, if you pay attention to the right things, a lot can be learned from stories of him. For instance, what this song is all about.)
The boy in the story wants to give something to his mother to show how much he loves her. But in his action of picking her the rose, he gets his hand pricked by a thorn. When his mother sees what has happened, she sees the love in what he did and even more so because he got hurt while trying to show his love for her.
Then later when the mother is reading him the bible, he sees the picture of Jesus and innocently points out the parallel between what he did and what Jesus did("mama he's got some scars just like me!"). Jesus showed his love for us to the point of getting nailed to a cross and crucified, so that we could have a right relationship with God.
It's a beautiful song about Jesus' love, and how a boy's, later a man's, life was affected by it.
This is a beautiful song. It nearly brings me to tears every time I hear it. I am an atheist, but I feel what the image of Jesus is trying to convey here.
Also, "Mama, he's got some scars, just like me" is the most beautiful line I will ever hear.