Sweetly flows the water from the mountain   Softly falls the rain upon the leaves   Gently blows the breeze among the cedars   Quietly my heart is on its knees.      How could anything in all creation   Be more beautiful than all I see   With it all my heart is not rejoicing   Because the one I love is not with me.      Somewhere in between us was a difference   Not we or all this beauty could secure   And I know now my heart will ache forever   And I wonder if this mountain can endure.      So l'm leavin'for the flatlands   Goin' back where I was conceived   Goin' back where nobody knows the difference   This mountain knows too much about me.      I though it was written up in heaven   That you would be with me and I with you   Sun and moon and stars must feel the difference   And they're wishin' there was somethin' they could do...