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John Denver
Miscellaneous
Potterâs Wheel
This song appears on three albums, and was first released on the Different Directions album, and has also been released on The John Denver Collection - Annieâs Song album. It has also been released on The John Denver Collection - Calypso album, as a live version.
The world is fast becoming younger
The news is all theyâve ever known
Theyâve seen the wars, the hurt, the hunger
How will they choose when they are grown
What do you tell foreverâs children
When itâs their turn to hurt and heal
Whatever spins a grim tornedo
Can also turn a potters wheel
Take a little clay
Put it on a wheel
Get a little hint
How God must feel
Give a little turn
Listen to a spin
Make it into the shape
You want it in
Tell with your life the bloody story
Teach to theyâre dreams not burning steel
Itâs not in bombs where lies the glory
But in whatâs shattered on the field
The potterâs wheel takes love and caring
Skill and patience fast and slow
The works it makes are easily broken
Once they survive the potterâs throw
Take a little clay
Put it on a wheel
Get a little hint
How God must feel
Give a little turn
Listen to a spin
Make it into the shape
You want it in
Some day some children will be digging
In some long forgotten ground
And theyâll find our civilisation
Or whatâs left of it to be found
Theyâll find the weapons of destruction
But buried deeper in the hole
Theyâll find a message and a promise
In the sand, the potterâs bowl
Take a little clay
Put it on a wheel
Get a little hint
How God must feel
Give a little turn
Listen to a spin
Make it into the shape
You want it in
Earth and fire and wind conspire
With human hands, and love, and fire
Words and Music by Bill Danoff
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