Perfect Pardon - Jennifer Knapp

There’s a seed for every season

That will meet the back that bends

A hunger that only harvest mends

And so you take the plow, tear into the earth

Tend and toil the red earth soil

Don’t care how much it hurts

You take the fight every time, you know

Blood that’s drawn from a rose grown in your own garden

River flows from a perfect pardon

If you barely scratch the surface

Then you don’t know a thing

You don’t know the tenderness it brings

Until you take the blow firmly on the chin

Adrenaline flows and finally you know

This is where your life begins

Take the fight every time, you know

Blood that’s drawn from a rose grown in your own garden

River flows from a perfect pardon

Some’ll pray for safety, others shelter from the rain, but

They don’t know the joy that it can bring

I won’t hide away, no, 'cause nothing grows

Nothing grows without the water from the storm, you know

Blood that’s drawn from a rose grown in your own garden

River flows from a perfect pardon

Blood that’s drawn from a rose grown in your own garden

River flows from a perfect pardon

Perfect pardon