On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 12:00:09 -0600, Jangchub
wrote:

On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 08:59:45 -0600, "Don Staples"
wrote:

"FragileWarrior" wrote in message
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Jangchub wrote in
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Congratulations Fantasy Warrior, you have made my kill file.

I found these lyrics to a beautiful song and at the core is what I
relate to:

Oh let your little light shine
Let your little light shine
Shine on Wall Street and Vegas
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

Let your little light shine
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
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

Let your little light shine
Let your little light shine
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

Let your little light 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...
May all their little lights shine


Hi Vic

I didn't recognise these lyrics so I googled to find they were from a
song on a new Joni Mitchell album, one of my all time favourite
artists, of whom I didn't realise she had released a new album. Thanks
a lot for highlighting this in relation to the sentiments in the
current thread.

Geoff (UK)

(Once a regular poster but now a rare participant in rec.gardens)