Lower School Song: “Turn the Light On”
written and directed by Joanna Sisk-Purvis
Sometimes the world seems like too much to handle
Sometimes we can't see past our own front door
But if we have the strength to light just one candle
We can find the way we've been looking for... so
Turn on the light
Turn the light on.
'Cause darkness can't stop darkness
Shine a light until it's gone
Turn on your love
Turn your love on
Cause more hate cannot stop hatred
But sharing our love can heal what's wrong
Sometimes it seems like conflict is forever
Sometimes we think we'll never get along.
But if we work to truly love our neighbors
Our differences are what will make us strong
Chorus
Shine a light on all of the people, through our darkest night
We'll see our shared humanity, and love will steer us right
Chorus
PopUp Chorus: “One Voice”
written by Wailin' Jennys
arranged and conducted by Carter Hodge and Amelia Shull
Upper School
This is the sound of one voice
One spirit, one voice
The sound of one who makes a choice
This is the sound of one voice
This is the sound of one voice
Audience: Low Harmony
This is the sound of voices two
The sound of me singing with you
Helping each other to make it through
This is the sound of voices two
This is the sound of voices two
Audience: High Harmony
This is the sound of voices three
Singing together in harmony
Surrendering to the mystery
This is the sound of voices three
This is the sound of voices three
Everyone
This is the sound of all of us
Singing with love and the will to trust
Leave the rest behind it will turn to dust
This is the sound of all of us
This is the sound of all of us
This is the sound of one voice
One people, one voice
A song for every one of us
This is the sound of one voice
This is the sound of one voice
Closing Song: "Lift Every Voice and Sing"
written by James Weldon Johnson
Lift every voice and sing
Till earth and heaven ring,
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise
High as the listening skies,
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us,
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun
Let us march on till victory is won.
Stony the road we trod,
Bitter the chastening rod,
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died;
Yet with a steady beat,
Have not our weary feet
Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears have been watered,
We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered,
Out from the gloomy past,
Till now we stand at last
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.
God of our weary years, God of our silent tears,
Thou who has brought us thus far on the way;
Thou who has by Thy might
Led us into the light,
Keep us forever in the path, we pray.
Lest our feet stray from the places,
Our God, where we met Thee;
Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world,
we forget Thee; Shadowed beneath Thy hand,
May we forever stand.
True to our God,
True to our native land.