Bring the Light Bring the light (Bring the light!) Bring the li-ight (Bring the li-ight!) Oh bring the light and let it shine on me Bring the light (Bring the light!) Bring the li-ight (Bring the li-ight!) Oh bring the light and let it shine on me Bring the light and let it shine, Bring it back just one more time, Bring the light and let it shine... Let it shine on me. Filament glow'n (Bring the light) Heart and home (Bring the li-ight) Oh bring the light and let it shine on me Bridle the wind (Bring the light) Harness the sea (Bring the li-ight) Oh bring the light and let it shine on me Sunder the atom (Bring the light) Thundering power (Bring the li-ight) Oh bring the light and let it shine on me Sun arising (Bring the light) Shining free (Bring the li-ight) Oh bring the light and let it shine on me Bring the light and let it shine, Bring it back just one more time, Bring the light and let it shine... Let it shine on me. Let it shine on me. Let it shine on me.

[Em] When the days are gettin' shorter, and the [D] nights are growin' long, And the [C] north wind puts a [D] tear into your [Em] eye, If you're out about 'round midnight and you [D] look off to the east, There you [C] may see bold [D] Orion on the [Em] rise. You may [G] know him by his stance or the [Em] starry shield he holds, As he [G] rises silent in a clear cold [Em] sky. Young Jack [D] Frost and Old Man Winter, they both [Em] beckon to the call Of their [D] master bold [C] Orion on the [Em] rise. Bold [C] Orion, mighty [Em] hunter, rising [D] in a clear cold [Em] sky, See the [C] summer fall [Em] before him. Bold [D] Orion's[C] on the [Em] rise. For seven starry ages, he has ruled the winter skies With the fires of lost eons in his eyes. He has seen the rise and fall of kings and continents and all, Rising silent, bold Orion on the rise. When he ascends, no hesitation; when he moves, no turnin' round, Like a soul been called to glory, earthly born but heavenly bound. Now the bird is on the wing, and it's southward that she flies, Hastened on by bold Orion on the rise. Bold Orion, mighty hunter, rising in a clear cold sky, See the summer fall before him. Bold Orion's on the rise. Summer comes on all too slowly, and it passes far too fast, And you wonder, is there nothin' that can last? Here today and gone tomorrow as the green leaves turn to red, As the present quickly turns into the past. Cut the wood and stack it high now. Stoke the fires in your home. Burnin' nightly send the smoke up to the sky. Keep the winter at your door and keep the summer in your heart. Drink a toast to bold Orion on the rise. Bold Orion, mighty hunter, rising in a clear cold sky, See the summer fall before him. Bold Orion's on the rise. Bold Orion, mighty hunter, rising in a clear cold sky, See the summer fall before him. Bold Orion's on the rise.

They may bury my body when I die Near some graveyard I'll be found Simply rotting in the ground If they bury my body when I die They may burn my body when I die As that fiery furnace flashes II'll be nothing more than ashes If they burn my body when I die They may use my body when I die As the doctors ply their arts I'll be in a hundred parts If they use my body when I die They may freeze my body when I die Though I may well be mistaken I would hope to reawaken If they freeze my body when I die They may eat my body when I die If a zombie horde remains They'll be hankering for brains As they eat my body when I die. I'd prefer to never die at all Cheating death is such a rarity It would take a singularity To permit we never die at all They may bury my body when I die Near some graveyard I'll be found Simply rotting in the ground If they bury my body when I die.

Little one, little one, bitter wind blown Little one, little one, bitter wind blown Little one, little one, bitter wind blown Little one, little one, bitter wind blown Sun barely rising above the horizon Little one, little one, bitter wind blown Flowers are withering, naked bark brittle oh, Little one, little one, bitter wind blown Don't understand why the light would abandon us, Little one, little one, bitter wind blown And I don't know how much more he may demand of us Little one, little one, bitter wind blown Sun, sailing away I don't know where... I don’t know why… Sky, darkening grey, Wishing there weren’t so many goodbyes... Little one, little one why... Little one why... Asking me questions I don't have the answers to Little one, little one, bitter wind blown Watching you shiver, and I dont know what to do Little one, little one, bitter wind blown Maybe if we did the dance, said the words just right Little one, little one, bitter wind blown Maybe he’d come back, maybe things would be all right Little one, little one, bitter wind blown Sun… sailing away… I don't know where… I don’t know why… Sky… darkening grey, Wishing there weren’t so many goodbyes... Little one, little one why... Little one why... Little one why...

Chasing patterns in the sky... Trace the line from star to star Look around and wonder why... Where we going who we are Vernal flower, summer breeze... Cricket wing and autumn leaves Fractal patterns, golden mean Whispers of a world unseen. Looking for a signal... hidden in the noise Where we come from, where we going? (Where we come from, where we going?) Looking for an answer... to give the girls and boys, asking Where we come from, where we going? (Where we come from, where we going?) Oh... where we come from, we we going? Oh... Chasing patterns in the sky Feeling lost, alone and small Birds depart and crickets die Frost encroaching, winter falls Track the omens, year by year Fit the pieces, best you can Tell a story they can hear Something we can understand Looking for a signal... hidden in the noise Where we come from, where we going? (Where we come from, where we going?) Looking for an answer... to give the girls and boys, asking Where we come from, where we going? (Where we come from, where we going?) Oh... where we come from, we we going? Oh.... Chasing patterns in the sky Seasons turn and stories change Weather vane and satellite Rising tide and hurricane Spiral Arm and Golden Mean Trace the line from star to star Seeking worlds yet unseen Where we going, who we are? (repeat x5)

From desert cliff and mountaintop we trace the wide design, Strikeslip fault and overthrust and syn and anticline. . . We gaze upon creation where erosion makes it known, And count the countless aeons in the banding of the stone. Odd long vanished creatures & their tracks & shells are found Where truth has left its sketches on the slate below the ground. The patient stone can speak, if we but listen when it talks. Humans wrote the book of earth... Time wrote the rocks... There are those who name the stars, who watch the sky by night, Seeking out the darkest place, to better see the light. Long ago, when isolation broke his weary will, Galileo recanted, but the Earth is moving still. High above the mountaintops, where only distance bars, The truth has left its footprints in the dust between the stars We may watch and study or may shudder and de-ny Humans wrote the book of night… Light wrote the sky By stem and root and branch we trace, by feather, fang and fur, How the living things that are descend from things that were The moss, the kelp, the zebrafish, the very mice and flies, Tiny, humble, wordless things how shall they tell us lies? We are kin to beasts, no other answer can we bring. The truth has left its fingerprints on every living thing. Winnowed by an aimless game of birth and blood and strife. Humans wrote the book of names... Death wrote life And we who listen to the stars, or walk the dusty grade, Or break the very atoms down to see how they are made, Or study cells or living things, seek truth with open hand The pro foundest act of worship is to try to understand. Deep in flower and in flesh, in star and soil and seed, The truth has left its living word for anyone to read. So turn and look where best you think the story is unfurled. Humans write the book of truth... Truth writes the world

A moment outside space and time Bounded boundless energy Unsurrounded, undesigned Tiny singularity Not quite certain how or why No one yet alive to see Suddenly a burst of light Endless possibility Stardust, all of us are stardust Stardust, all of us are stardust Clouds amassing in the dark Hundred billion miles wide Eons pass until the spark Dust collapsing, stars ignite Atoms churning, torn apart Searing hot and shining bright Born anew within the heart Bursting forth into the night Stardust, all of us are stardust Stardust, all of us are stardust Silent lights across the black Luminescent and sublime Countless generations pass No one there to see them shine But then a cosmic happenstance Circumstances just align Somewhere on a fragile dot Some tiny molecules combine Stardust, all of us are stardust Stardust, all of us are stardust A simple drive to grow and thrive Cradled on a tidal shore Struggling to stay alive Paving way for so much more Not quite certain how or why No one living yet could see Suddenly a spark of life Endless possibility Stardust, all of us are stardust Stardust, all of us are stardust Stardust, all of us are stardust Stardust, all of us are stardust All of us are stardust All of us are stardust All of us are stardust All of us are stardust

Do you realize... that you have the most beautiful face? Do you realize... … we're floating in space? Do you realize... … that happiness makes you cry? Do you realize... … that everyone you know someday will die? And instead of saying all of your goodbyes, let them know You realize that life goes fast It's hard to make the good things last You realize the sun doesn't go down It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round Do you realize, ah ah ahh? Do you realize... that you have the most beautiful face? Do you realize... … we're floating in space? Do you realize... … that happiness makes you cry? Do you realize... … that everyone you know someday will die? And instead of saying all of your goodbyes, let them know You realize that life goes fast It's hard to make the good things last You realize the sun doesn't go down It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round Do you realize... That everyone... you know... someday... will die.

Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound’s the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.

The careful text-books measure - Let all who build beware! The load, the shock, the pressure material can bear: So, when the buckled girder lets down the grinding span The blame of loss, or murder, is laid upon the man Not on the Steel - the Man! But, in our daily dealing with stone and steel, we find The Gods have no such feeling of justice toward mankind To no set gauge they make us, for no laid course prepare In time they overtake us with loads we cannot bear: Too merciless to bear The prudent text-books give it in tables at the end The stress that shears a rivet, or makes a tie-bar bend What traffic wrecks macadam - what concrete should endure But we, poor Sons of Adam, have no such literature To warn us or make sure! To warn us or make sure! We hold all Earth to plunder - all Time and Space as well Too wonder-stale to wonder at each new miracle Till in the mid-illusion of Godhood 'neath our hand Falls multiple confusion on all we did or planned The mighty works we planned The mighty works we planned We only in Creation - how much luckier the bridge and rail! Abide the twin damnation: to fail and know we fail Yet we - by which sole token we know we once were Gods Take shame in being broken, however great the odds Oh, veiled and secret Power, whose paths we seek in vain Be with us in our hour of overthrow and pain That we - by which sure token we know Thy ways are true In spite of being broken, or because of being broken Rise up and build anew Stand up and build anew!

Sun barely rising above the horizon Little one, little one, bitter wind blown Flowers are withering, naked bark brittle oh, Little one, little one, bitter wind blown Good folk are gonna die, sun-god ain't shedding tears Little one, little one, bitter wind blown And I just stare at the sky, digging the graves each year Little one, little one, bitter wind blown Sun, sailing away I don't know where… I don’t know why… Sky, darkening grey, Wishing there weren’t so many goodbyes... little one, little one why... little one why... (sixteen bars of Cello solo) Maybe if we looked a while and found a stone Little one, little one, bitter wind blown Dragged it a hun-der-ed miles and got it home Little one, little one, bitter wind blown We could dig us a henge, raise those bluestones up high Little one, little one, bitter wind blown In two hundred years we could look at the sky Little one, little one, bitter wind blown And our children would know when the winter was coming, oh Little one, little one, bitter wind blown Looking and laboring, doing what must be done Little one, little one, bitter wind blown Sun, sailing away I don't know where… I don’t know why… Sky, darkening grey, Wishing there weren’t so many goodbyes... And maybe some good folk are still going to die Little one, little one, bitter wind blown Their mothers shake helpless with rage and denial Little one, little one, bitter wind blown But maybe it might be less deep of a sorrow Little one, little one, bitter wind blown Not quite so many graves dug up tomorrow Little one, little one, bitter wind blown

Brighter Than Today Countless winter nights ago, A woman shivered in the cold. Cursed the skies, and wondered why The gods invented pain. Aching angry flesh and bone, Bitterly she struck the stone Till she saw the sudden spark Of light, and golden flame. She showed the others, but they told her She was not fit to control The primal forces that the gods Had cloaked in mystery But she would not be satisfied, And though she trembled, she defied them Took her torch and raised it high Set afire history. Tomorrow can be brighter than today, although the night is cold. the stars may seem so very far away... But courage, hope and reason burn, In every mind, each lesson learned, Shining light to guide our way (Bm) Make tomorrow brighter than today... Oh................ Oh oh oh... Oh... Brighter than to-day. Ages long forgotten now, We built the wheel and then the plough. Tilled the earth and proved our worth, Against the drought and snow. Soon we had the time to fathom Mountain peaks and tiny atoms, Beating hearts electric sparks So much more to know. Tomorrow can be brighter than to-day although the night is cold. The stars may seem so very far away... But courage, hope and reason grow, With every passing season so we'll Drive the darkness far away... Make tomorrow brighter than today... Oh................ Oh oh oh...... Oh................ Oh oh oh…... Oh... Brighter than to-day. The universe may seem unfair. The laws of nature may not care. The storms and quakes, our own mistakes, They nearly doused our flame. But all these trials we’ve endured The lessons learned, diseases cured Against our herculean task We’ve risen to proclaim. Tomorrow can be brighter than to-day Although the night is cold. The stars may seem so very far away... But courage, hope and reason bloom, Across the world and one day soon we'll Rise up to the stars and say... Make tomorrow brighter than today... Oh................ Oh oh oh…... Oh................ Oh oh oh…... Oh................ Oh oh oh….. Oh... Brighter than to-day.

Mama's been waiting, huddled outside. Brother is quietly holding her tight Hurrying home and I hope there's still time for One... more... night... Slowly she turns... opens her eyes Struggles to stand... point to the sky Barely can breathe but she's telling the stories One... last... time... And she whispers of hunters and dragons and gods Wanderers roaming the stars up above Holding her hand in that moment I wonder, Can't help but wonder at all... those... Endless lights, burning with untold stories, Each of them one more reason to wonder Is anyone out there, is anyone out there? Anyone out there tonight? Father is waiting for sister and me Thousands of miles away, over the sea; and we’re Flying as fast as the Boeing'll carry us One... last... time... Thinking of stories he told from the war Terrible jokes that he made us endure Daylight is ending, the plane is descending Just... in... time... As the clouds part around us, a dazzling city Appears like a jewel in the night. And I look at our home and its lights all a glow'n and I can't help but wonder at all... those... Endless lights, burning with untold stories, Each of them one more reason to wonder Is anyone out there, is anyone out there? Endless night, cradling countless voices, Reaching across the vastness... With beautiful stories, lasting as long as they can... ...beautiful stories lasting as as long as they can... Grandma's been waiting for clues in the dark, and I'm Journeying millions of miles to take part. And finally I see her glint in the viewing port, Right... on... time... Weightless embrace as the airlock reseals, Space station turning and slowly reveals: Rows upon rows of her telescopes listening Deep... through... time... And maybe there's some kind of somebody out there Listening in on our radio calls Or maybe there's not there's just one pale blue dot to give Meaning and beauty and worth to it all. But holding her hand in that moment I wonder, Can't help but wonder at all wonder at all... those... Endless lights, burning with untold stories, Each of them one more reason to wonder Is anyone out there, is anyone out there? Endless night, cradling countless voices, Reaching across the vastness... With beautiful stories, lasting as long as they can... ...beautiful stories lasting as as long as they can... ...beautiful stories lasting as as long as they can...

Grandma told me stories – about life from way back when Walking uphill both ways through the snow Rugged people trudgin' down the narrow path ahead Going where their daddy said to go Way back when... everything seemed simple, baby Some day soon… maybe it'll all make sense again But here and now, got a world to explore, Got some riddles to unravel, baby What'chu waiting for? Here and now, here and now…. We got choices all around Here and now, here and now…. We got interest compounding Taking things for granted that’d shatter Newton's mind, What'll we find in tomorrow's here and now? Way back when... everything seemed simple, baby Some day soon… maybe it'll all make sense again But here and now, got a world to explore, Got some riddles to unravel, baby What'chu waiting for? Here and now, here and now…. we got pens instead of swords, Here and now, here and now… turning ploughshares into tract-ors Taking things for granted, superstimulus galore, What's in store for tomorrow's here and now? Way back when... everything seemed simple, baby Some day soon… maybe it'll all make sense again But here and now, got a world to explore, Got some riddles to unravel, baby What'chu waiting for? [Deep voices] [High voices] Here and now, here and now (Here and now, here and now) Here and now, here and now (Here and now, here and now) Here and now, here and now… we got smallpox locked up tight Here and now, here and now... brand new Star Wars out tonight! Here and now, here and now... gotta run and catch my flight But I'll see you in tomorrow's here and now. Here and now, here and now… we got robots driving cars Here and now, here and now… Elon's colonizing mars Here and now, here and now… we got smart philanthropy, With some scientific rigor, and some metanalyses, yeah! Way back when... everything seemed simple, baby Some day soon… maybe it'll all make sense again But here and now, got a world to explore, Got some riddles to unravel... Tell me what you waiting for Tell me what you waiting for Tell me what you waiting for

Em G D A Hands chip the flint, light the fire, skin the kill Feet move the tribe track the herd with a will Human-kind struggles, on the edge of history Time to settle down, time to grow, time to breed [B7] Plow tills the soil, plants the seed, pray for rain Scythe reaps the wheat, to the mill, to grind the grain Towns.. and.. cities spread to empire overnight Hands keep building as we chant the ancient rite... Coal heats the steam, push the piston, turns the wheel Cogs spin the wool, drives the horses made of steel Lightning harnessed does our will and lights the dark Keep rising higher, set our goal, hit the mark... [Interlude] (2 iterations of Em/G/D/A, one iteration of solid Em) Crawl.. out.. of... the mud. On... go... ing... but slow. path... that is easy one... that... lets us grow Light push the sails, read the data, cities glow Hands type the keys, click the mouse, out we go! Our voices carry round the world and into space Send us out to colonize another place¸ Hands, make the tools, light the fire, plant the grain Feet, track the herd, build a world, begin again

A possible child, Dreaming through the longest night, A possible smile, Waking to a distant light, A possible world, Tell me what you wanna see, Where's that child going, tell me Who's that child gonna be... In five thousand years, Whatcha want to do, whatcha wanna see? In five thousand years Where we want to go, who we want to be? In five thousand years, If we boldly set our sights, Journey through the coldest night In five thousand years... Oh... Five thousand years... We could build a brand new home, We could raise the glass domes high. And in a century or three Our children might look at the sky And then at last they'd see The distant yellow sun. The cradle of humanity, And all the things we might become... In five thousand years Whatcha want to do, whatcha wanna see, in another Five thousand years Where we want to go, who we want to be, in another Five thousand years If we sailed across the stars. Unimaginably far In five thousand years... Oh... Five thousand years And maybe good folk still might die, But maybe not, we gotta try I don't quite know what shape we'll take I don't quite know what world we'll make I don't quite know how things might change I don't quite know what rules we'd break Our present selves might think it strange But there's so many lives at stake... And entropy is bearin' down But we got tricks for sticking 'round. And if our children see the day That yellow might fade to red then grey, We'll take a moment, one by one Turn to face the dying su-un Bittersweetly wave goodbye-- The journey's only just begun... In five thousand years Whatcha want to do, whatcha wanna see, in another Five million years Where we want to go, who we want to be, in another Five billion years When all that we once knew is gone Our legacy could carry on In five billion years... Five billion years Whatcha want to do, whatcha want to see, in another Five billion years Where we wanna go, who we wanna be, in another Five billion years Where we wanna go? Five billion years Who we wanna be? Five billion years Where we wanna go? Five billion years Who we wanna be?