Little Light
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Ancient prophets say we've all got a little light inside us
And unless we let it stretch out, rise up and shine bright
It will burn us up and burn us out 'till were nothing but
Ash
And lately, I've been spending my days
Searching for some sun rays inside me
'Cause night is creeping up behind me
And I've been no shining star no constellation no phoenix rising
I've been closing my eyes and hiding from the dark of all we've become
And I know there's music in me
But it's been so far inside
I need someone to skin me alive
Wrap my hide around the wooden bones of a drum
And been the rhythm from me to the song inside me
Sounds something like the sun
Cause been sleeping too long
Need something to wake me up Before
And by the time
Cause this little light of mine
Is about ready to burn up in the
Hell of my stagnation
When I know damn well my procrastination is starving nations
Carving track marks into the veins of the world
I'm taking my time
Meanwhile
A landmines ripping the limbs from another little girl
A raps breaking the hipbones of another woman walking home
A lynchings cracking the neck of another black brother
A phone call is waking the mother of
another dead soldier no older than eighteen
And I can hear the screaming 'till I'm
dreaming of a better world instead of building one
Where the hells a sun inside me
How many pain do I need to see before I
start to bleed for something other than myself
How much death do I need to remind me what the hell I'm living for
Cause every time a war is ending another ten are filing in
And my denial is a sin with so much filth
A thousand years of prayer may never wash away my guilt
Why aren't I shining
I never learned to burn out
I was raised with compassion
I was raised to be kind
I was raised to know ever open wound on this earth is a wound of mine
And every time I'm on my knees refusing to stand and be a healer
I may as well be the disease
So someone tell me please why I'm not rising
Why I'm still stuck beneath the horizon of my fear
So afraid of the light inside my heart
Do you think id rather live forever in the dark
Choosing to ignore the fact that the
women next doors got another black eye
Pretending the guy on the corner asking
for some change has forgotten how to cry
Don't want to lid those lies anymore
My eyes closed, praying for a cure
Making homes for my gods
And chapels, temples, and steeples
Knowing that gods had their choice
They'd make their homes in people
And its about time I open my door
Become the savor I've been praying to be at the salvation
I've been praying for
Be the light that shines the sky blue
The first tear a mother cries when she
hold her first daughter for the very first time
Wanna be the rainwater that spon in truth
The finger on the trigger that decides not to shoot
Wanna be the soul in the boot of the
soldier running all the way back home
Wanna be the love poem she writes to
herself when her wounds begin to heal
And she can feel herself again
Wanna be that moment when his face finally disappears
The dream that drowns in nightmares
The song that quiets the screaming
Wanna rise every day like the dawn that
this little light of mine shine on and on
And on