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"What Is Known"

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1. There is a hope that shines so bright
it blinds if seen straight on;
it hides within our darkest fears
until they've gone.

(Refrain:)
And then that hope is hope no more,
but simply what is known.
And hope now hides its light inside
the unknown, the unknown.

2. Where does the hope of your life dwell,
the light within the pain?
If there you let your vision rest,
then all turns plain.

(Refrain)

3. I hold the hope that all the world
will learn someday to see
the inner light that's shared by all
humanity.

Then ev'ry hope will not be hope,
but simply what is known;
then ev'ry hope will not be hope,
but what is known,
what is known.

"What Eye Has Not Seen"

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1. What eye has not seen hatred,
what ear has not heard blame,
what heart has not felt sorrow and fear,
what soul has not lost its way?

2. What eye has not seen kindness,
what ear has not heard peace,
what heart has not felt gratitude and love,
what soul has not found release?

3. May ev'ry eye see kindness,
may ev'ry ear hear peace,
may ev'ry heart feel gratitude and love,
may ev'ry soul find release.

"What Makes Us Human"

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(1) What makes us human, what makes us human is love (repeat four times)....

(2) What makes us loving, what makes us loving is joy....

(3) What makes us joyful, what makes us joyful is peace....

(4) What makes us peaceful, what makes us peaceful is understanding....

(5) What makes us understand is compassion....

(6) What makes us compassionate is our spirit....

(7) What makes our spirit, what makes our spirit is mystery....

(8) What is the mystery, what is the mystery? It's here and now....

"Come, Talk with Me"

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(1) Come, talk with me,
and I will listen to your voice.
Even if you speak a language I don't know,
somehow I'll understand.
Come, talk with me,
and I will see your story
written in your eyes,
written in the lines of your face and hands.

You are a person just like me:
Life cuts you, and you bleed;
life holds you, and you weep for joy.
We seem so different, you and I,
but listen to our sighs,
and see the hope shining out from our eyes.

(2) Come, talk with me,
and listen to my voice.
Even if I speak a language you don't know,
somehow you'll understand.
Come, talk with me,
and you will see my story
written in my eyes,
written in the lines of my face and hands.

I am a person just like you:
Sometimes scared and confused,
just tryin' to make it through.
We seem so different, you and I,
but we both come from the sky
and to the sky we will fly when we die.

(3) Come, walk with me,
and we will join our voices.
Even if we speak a language no one knows,
someone will understand.
Come, walk with me,
and we will see the story
written in their eyes,
everybody's eyes,
all across the land,
across the land, across the land.

"To Be Here and Alive"

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(1) Autumn leaves on the tree,
turning gold, turning red,
hanging on through the night
in the cold and wind,
hanging on to the place
where they've always been,
hanging on, hanging on, to the end.

(Chorus) Tell me, what does it mean
to be here and alive?
Are we meant to do more than cling?
Are we leaves on some branch
holding on for our life,
or a bird on the branch come to sing?

(2) Every day before dawn,
if you listen close,
you will hear a small bird
start to sing its song,
through summer and spring,
through winter and fall,
ever there, ever there, on and on.

(Chorus)

(3) Many days this old world
seems a sad, bitter place
grown cold with fear,
gone mad with rage.
But as all around
things fall apart,
deepest love, deepest hope, still remains.

(Chorus)

"Let the Gift Keep Passing On"

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This song was inspired by the work of Heifer International and has been used for group singing at Heifer fundraisers. It's for sale as downloadable sheet music on the Music Rack in Phyllis's Store, with all proceeds going to Heifer International.

As a child wastes from hunger,
the parched fields all bare of grain;
as a mother's milk runs dry,
death keeps watch, but in vain.

(Refrain) For the gift keeps passing on;
hand to hand, it lives.
The gift keeps passing on;
heart to heart, life it gives.

Give a cow, and there is milk
for that child and family,
and its calf will soon be passed on
to a neighbor in need.

(Refrain)

May all children laugh in joy;
may their fathers harvest dreams;
may their mothers watch them thrive,
bodies strong, spirits deep.

(Refrain)

© 2005 Phyllis Cole-Dai