Shine

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 farmland

Buried under subdivisions



Oh, let your little light shine

Oh, let your little light shine



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

And 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



Oh, let your little light shine

Let your little light shine

Shine, shine



Shine on world wide traffic jams

Honking day and night

Shine on another asshole

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

Craving simplicity

They traveled inward



Past themselves

Let their little light shine

May all their little lights shine