Shine

[Chorus]
Oh, let your little light shine
Let your little light shine

[Verse 1]
Shine on Vegas and Wall Street. place your bets
Shine on 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
Shine on fertile farmland buried under subdivisions

[Chorus]
Oh, let your little light shine
Oh, let your little light shine

[Verse 2]
Shine on the dazzling darkness that restores us in deep sleep
Shine on what we throw away and what we keep
Shine on Reverend Pearson who threw away the vain old God
Kept Dickens and Rembrandt and Beethoven and fresh-plowed sod
Shine on good earth, good air, good water and a safe place for kids to play
Shine on bombs exploding half a mile away

[Chorus]
Oh, let your little light shine
Let your little light shine

[Verse 3]
Shine on world-wide traffic jams honking day and night
Shine on another asshole passing on the right
Shine on 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

[Chorus]
Oh, let your little light shine
Shine, shine, shine
Let your little light shine

[Verse 4]
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
Craving simplicity, they traveled inward past themselves

[Outro]
May all their little lights shine
May all their little lights shine