Posted August 22, 2016 in Press Releases
Lyrics by Shelley Andrews-Hinders/Bob Navis Jr
Music by Bob Navis Jr
As performed by the cast of Near West Theatre's 2016 Annual Benefit: Let the Sun Shine!
With all the pervasive violence, hatred, and controversy in the country right now, we'd like to share our original song, written by Artistic Director Bob Navis Jr and long-time Near West Theatre family member Shelley Andrews-Hinders.
More Love. Less Hate. Choose Love over Fear. Be an agent of Peace and Unity.
Let the Sun Shine In!
LOVE CAN HEAL US
LOVE CAN FREE US
LOVE CAN JOIN US
LET’S OPEN OUR HEARTS AND LET EACH OTHER IN
LOVE CAN HEAL US
LOVE CAN FREE US
LOVE CAN JOIN US
LET’S OPEN OUR HEARTS AND LET EACH OTHER IN
Black child playing with a plastic gun, refugee families on the run
Suicide bombers blown to kingdom come
LOVE CAN HEAL US
An innocent child face down in the waves, all families lost in watery graves
Friends chatting in a Paris café, laughing as the darkness blows them all away
LOVE CAN HEAL US
LOVE CAN FREE US
LOVE CAN JOIN US
LET’S OPEN OUR HEARTS AND LET EACH OTHER IN
RED WHITE YELLOW/BLACK BROWN, COLOR OF FOLKS/LIVIN’ IN THIS TOWN
Not just the colors of the skin we’re in, they’re the colors of the world we’re livin’ in
LOVE CAN HEAL US!
All connected by a thread of gold, stitched with silver to make them hold.
If one gets broken, if one gets lost, do we shut our eyes? Ignore the cost?
LOVE CAN HEAL US!
BLACK BROWN YELLOW / RED WHITE
Surrounded by a world of strangers, surrounded by a world of dangers,
Legions of darkness and all their might, vanquished by a tiny single spark of light.
That Light! Lives on in reflection. That Light! Lives on in your grace.
That Light! You see in the mirror is the same light shining in your neighbors’ face.
LOVE CAN HEAL US
LOVE CAN FREE US
LOVE CAN JOIN US
LET’S OPEN OUR HEARTS AND LET EACH OTHER IN
From cradle to grave, from grave to rebirth,
your life is a poem, sung by Mother Earth.
Everybody lost? Come on in! Rejected and tossed? Come on in!
Looking for a change? Come on in! Life re-arranged? Come on in!
Have you been evicted? Come on in! Wrongly convicted? Come on in!
Ready to break out now? Come on in! Need a place to shout now? Come on in!
Feeling isolated? Come on in! Down and subjugated? Come on in!
Making a transition? Come on in! Facing opposition? Come on in!
Beaten down and battered? Come on in! Need a life that matters? Come on in !
Got incarcerated? Come on in! Ready to be liberated? Come on in!
Mixed up and confused now? Come on in! Tired of being abused now? COME ON IN! Got a broken heart? Come on in! Ready for a new start? Come on in!
LET’S OPEN OUR HEARTS AND LET EACH OTHER IN
LOVE CAN HEAL US
LOVE CAN FREE US
LOVE CAN JOIN US
LET’S OPEN OUR HEARTS AND LET EACH OTHER IN
LET’S OPEN OUR HEARTS AND LET EACH OTHER IN
LET’S OPEN OUR HEARTS AND LET THE SUN... SHINE... IN!!!!!!!
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