John Gabriel Every Living Thing Lyrics

Every Living Thing Lyrics

This beautiful planet Earth,

    This paradise we inhabit,

    This
home of the Redwood, Magnolia and Oak, 

     The Eagle the Whale and the
Rabbit.

     This bountiful Mother Earth, 

     This wonder who
gave us our birth,

     As She did for the Moss and the Lichen and
Fern,

    She has a lesson She'd like us to learn:

Refrain:

 
      Every Living Thing is special,

        Every Living Thing,
unique,

        And Every Living Thing would tell us so

        If
Every Living Thing could speak.

        Every Living Thing has
feelings,

        Every Living Thing knows pain,

        And, I
guess, on that level we are all connected

        In an endless living
chain.

        Every Living Thing has beauty,

        Depending on
your point of view,

        And just as much right to be here

     
  As the things we call "humans" do.

        The link that unites all
beings

        Can be told in a simple phrase:

            Every
Living Thing 

            Needs another living thing

            To
share its nights and days!