Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 1997 11:02 PM
Artist: Emmylou Harris
Title: Every Grain Of Sand written by Bob Dylan
Source: From Emmylou Harris "Wrecking Ball"
Asylum Records 1995
1981 Special Rider Music
Daniel Lanois acoustic guitar
Malcolm Burn organ
Larry Mullen Jr drums
Tony Hall bass
Steve Earle acoustic guitar
In the time of my confession, in the hour of my deepest need
Absus
When the pool of tears beneath my feet flood every newborn seed
There's a dyin' voice within me reaching out somewhere,
Asusb
Toiling in the danger and in the morals of despair.
Don't have the inclination to look back on any mistake,
Like Cain, I now behold this chain of events that I must break.
In the fury of the moment I can see the Master's hand
Absus
In every leaf that trembles and, in every grain of sand.
Oh, the flowers of indulgence and the weeds of yesteryear,
Absus
Like criminals, they have choked the breath of conscience and good
cheer.
The sun beat down upon the steps of time to light the way
Absus
To ease the pain of idleness and the memory of decay.
I gaze into the doorway of temptation's angry flame
And every time I pass that way I always hear my name.
Then onward in my journey I come to understand
That every hair is numbered like every grain of sand.
I have gone from rags to riches in the sorrow of the night
Absus
In the violence of a summer's dream, in the chill of a wintry light,
In the bitter dance of loneliness fading into space,
Absus
In the broken mirror of innocence on each forgotten face.
I hear the ancient footsteps like the motion of the sea
Sometimes I turn, there's someone there, other times it's only me.
I am hanging in the balance of a perfect finished plan
Like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand