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Shine
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 the 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 whatever we throw away
and what we keep.
Shine on Reverand Pearson
who threw away
the vain old God,
kept Dickens and Rembrandt and Beethoven,
and fresh-plowed sod;
shine on the 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;
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 churchs;
they all love less and less;
shine on a hopeful girl
in a dreamy dress.
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 around
past themselves...
May all their little lights shine!
Joni Mitchell 2007
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