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 a tunnel vision, tunnel vision

Shine on fertile farmlands

Buried under subdivisions

Oh, let your little light shine

Oh, let your little light shine

Shine on the dazzling darkness

That restores a sun deep sleep

Shine on what we throw away

And what we keep

Shine on Reverend Pearson

Who threw away the vain, old garden

And kept Dickens and Rembrandt

And Beethoven

And fresh clouds sigh

Shine on good earth, good air

Good water and a safe place

For kids to play

Shine when bomb exploding

Half a mile away

Oh, let your little light shine

Let your little light shine, shine, shine

Shine on worldwide 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 cellphones

Shine on the Catholic church

And the prisons that it holds

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

And patriotic pain

Shine on mass destruction

In some god's name

Shine on the pioneers

Those seekers of mental health

Craving simplicity

They travelled inward

Past themselves

Let their little lights shine

May all their little lights shine