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The Cornerstone
Andrew Peterson

I saw the desert wind

Tear across the wilderness

I felt it blowing off the page

The teacher told me, Son,

Always remember this

And I have always been afraid


I read about the God of Moses

Roaring in the holy cloud

It shook my bedroom window panes

I did not understand then

I do not understand now

I don't expect you to explain


You've been a mystery since the moment that I met you

You never move but I can never seem to catch you

The Cornerstone


You said to eat your flesh

Before you broke the bread and blessed it

Before you poured the wine for every man

This is a hard, hard teaching

Can any man accept it?

Can any sage here understand?


You turned the tables over

There in your father's temple

You cracked a whip and raised a shout

My daughter asked me why

I said, Love is never simple

It draws 'em in and drives 'em out.


I saw you there but it was too late to change my course

And I collided with a beautiful immovable force

And so the stone that I rejected

It has become the Cornerstone


All the maps were drawn

But the maps were wrong

The stars spin around

Another sun

All the maps were drawn

But the maps were wrong

The rivers are running from

The Cornerstone


And you looked me in the eye and fixed me with a permanent stare

I met your gaze and saw the forges of the firmament there

The Cornerstone


And the floods come up

And the rains come down…


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