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The Greatest Gift Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Praise the mountain and the rain
All the gifts that still remain
But the greatest gift of all
And the law above all laws
[Chorus 1]
Is to love your friends and lovers
To lay down your life for your brothers
As you abide in peace
So will your delight increase
[Verse 2]
As the mystery of the cross
Is the love joy lost, the toss
And the fountain in the rain
Where my sorrow still remains
[Chorus 2]
So I run to my friends and lovers
I lay down my life for my brothers
As I abide in peace
So will my delight increase
Praise the mountain and the rain
All the gifts that still remain
But the greatest gift of all
And the law above all laws
Is to love your friends and lovers
To lay down your life for your brothers
As you abide in peace
So will your delight increase
As the mystery of the cross
Is the love joy lost, the toss
And the fountain in the rain
Where my sorrow still remains
So I run to my friends and lovers
I lay down my life for my brothers
As I abide in peace
So will my delight increase
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John 15:13 -- "Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends."
I wonder if he once considered ending Carrie and Lowell with this note of optimism. He wrote it for the album, after all. But I can see that it fights with the pain that permeated it. And we do that know that "signs and wonders" kept him alive.