Let It Be Me

Sticks and stones, battle zones,

a single light bulb on a single thread for the black

sirens wail, history fails

rose-colored glass begins to age and crack

while the politicians shadowbox the power ring

in an endless split decision never solve anything

from a neighbor's distant land,

I heard the strain of the common man



Let it be me (this is not a fighting song)

Let it be me (not a wrong for a wrong)

Let it be me, if the world is night, shine my life like a light



Well the world seems spent, and the president

has no good idea of who the masses are

well I'm one of them and I'm among friends

trying to see beyond the fences of our own backyard

I've seen kingdoms blow like ashes in the winds of change

but the power of truth is the fuel for the flame

so the darker the ages get there's a stronger beacon yet



Let it be me (this is not a fighting song)

Let it be me (not a wrong for a wrong)

Let it be me, if the world is night, shine my life like a light.



In the kind word you speak

in the turn of a cheek

when your vision stays clear in the face of your fear

then you see turning off a light switch is their only power

when we stand like spotlights in a mighty tower

all for one and one for all then we sing the common call.



Let it be me (this is not a fighting song)

Let it be me (not a wrong for a wrong)

Let it be me, if the world is night, shine my life like a light.