Oh,
let your little light shine
Let your little light shine
Shine on Vegas and Wall Street
Place your bets
Shine on all the fishermen with nothing in their nets
Shine on rising oceans and evaporating seas Shine on our Frankenstein
technologies Shine on science
with its tunnel vision
Tunnel vision Shine on fertile farmlands buried
under subdivisions
Oh,
let your little light shine
Oh, let your little light shine
That restores us in deep sleep Shine on what we throw away
Shine on Reverend Pearson Who threw away
the vain old God
And kept Dickens and Rembrandt and Beethoven And fresh cloudside
Shine on good earth,
good air,
good water And the safeness
for kids to play
Shine on bombs exploding half a mile away
Oh,
let your little light shine
Shine,
shine Shine on worldwide
traffic jams
Talking day and night
Shine
on another *
passing on the right
Shine on all the red light runners Busy talking
on their cell phones
Shine on the Catholic church
And the prisons that it owns
Shine on all the churches
They all love
less and less
Shine on a hopeful girl
in a
dreamy dress Oh,
let your little light shine
Shine, shine, shine, let your little light shine
Shine on good humor
Shine on good will
Shine on lousy leadership Licensed to kill
Shine on dying soldiers
In patriotic pain
Shine on mass destruction In some
God's name
Shine on the pioneers Those seekers of mental health
Braving simplicity
They traveled inward
Past themselves Let their little lights shine
May all our little lights shine