Through Heaven's Eyes - Brian Stokes Mitchell

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Through Heaven's Eyes Lyrics

A single thread in a tapestry
though its color brightly shines,
can never see its purpose
in the pattern of the grand design.
And the stone that sits up on the very top
of the mountain's mighty face,
does it think it's more important

than the stones that forms the base?
So how can you see what your life is worth
or where your value lies?
You can never see through the eyes of man.
You must look at your life.
Look at your life through heaven's eyes.

lai-la-lai...

A lake of gold in the desert sand
is less than a cool fresh spring
and to one lost sheep, a Shepard boy
is greater than the richest king.
If a man lose everything he owns
has he truly lost his worth?
Or is it the beginning
of a new and brighter birth?

So how do you measure the worth of a man,
in wealth or strength or size?
In how much he gained, or how much he gave?
The answer will come, the answer will come to him who tries,
to look at his life through heaven's eyes.
And that's why we share all we have with you
though there's little to be found.

When all you've got is nothing
there's a lot to go around.
No life can escape being blown about
by the winds of change and chance,
and though you never know all the steps,
you must learn to join the dance.
You must learn to join the dance.

lai-la-lai...

So how do you judge what a man is worth?
By what he builds or buys?
You can never see with your eyes on earth
Look through Heaven's eyes, look at your life.
Look at your life.
Look at your life through Heaven's eyes.

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Brian Stokes Mitchell ----won the 2000 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for his performance in Kiss Me, Kate. His other Broadway credits include the title role in August Wilson’s King Hedley II (Tony, Drama Desk nominations), Coalhouse Walker, Jr. in Ragtime (Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle nominations, L.A. Drama Critic’s Circle and the Drama League’s Distinguished Performance awards), Kiss of the Spider Woman, Jelly’s Last Jam, Oh, Kay!, Mail (Theatre World Award), and the City Center Encores! presentations of Do Re Mi and Carnival. His career in television and film spans from "Roots: The Next Generation" and "Trapper John, M.D." to Dreamworks’ animated feature "The Prince of Egypt" and Showtime’s "Ruby’s Bucket of Blood” with Angela Bassett and the television film "Call Me Claus" with Whoopi Goldberg. Other TV credits include "Too Rich" with Lauren Bacall, "Double Platinum" with Diana Ross, and a recurring role as neighbor Cam Winston on "Frasier." In 2005 he headlined the Carnegie Hall concert presentation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific with Reba McEntire and Alec Baldwin. The concert aired on PBS and was released on CD and DVD.

Mr. Stokes has been president of The Actors' Fund of America since 2004. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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