Cat Stevens - Morning Has Broken Lyrics

“Morning Has Broken” receives each new day as a fresh act of God’s creation. Images of birdsong, rain, dew, sunlight, and a wet garden make ordinary morning details occasions for praise. By comparing the scene to the first morning and to Eden, the hymn looks beyond habit and treats the natural world as renewed gift. Its repeated praise is directed not only toward beauty itself, but toward the God from whom that beauty springs.

The final stanza makes the response personal without claiming ownership over creation’s source. Sunlight and morning are welcomed as gifts born from the one light associated with Eden, and “God’s recreation of the new day” suggests daily renewal. Genesis 1 provides the song’s creation imagery, especially light, living creatures, and the goodness of the ordered world. Lamentations 3 also describes God’s mercies as new every morning. The lyric therefore joins observation with gratitude: dawn becomes an invitation to recognize divine generosity and answer it with praise.