Not exactly a poem...song lyrics

babybokal · 10-30-2002, 01:02 AM

Hey y'all. I don't know if anyone else likes Indigo Girls here, but this is probably my favorite song of theirs. In these times of crisis and unrest all over the world, no matter what you feel politically, it's comforting to think that people like all us Cysters are helping to bring light into someone's life.

Let It Be Me

Sticks and stones, battle zones
A single lightbulb on a single thread for the black,
Sirens wail, history fails,
Rose-colored glass begins to age and crack.
While the politicians shadowbox the power ring
In a endless split decision, never solve anything,
From a neighbor's distant land
I heard the strain of the common man.

Let it be me (this is not a fighting song)
Let it be me (not a wrong for a wrong)
Let it be me, if the world is night
Shine my life like a light.

Well the world seems spent, and the president
Has no good idea who the masses are.
Well I'm one of them, and I'm among friends
Trying to see beyond the fences in our own backyards.
I've seen the kingdoms blow like ashes in the winds of change.
Yeah, but the power of truth is fuel for the flame.
So the darker the ages get,
There's a stronger beacon yet.

Let it be me (this is not a fighting song)
Let it be me (not a wrong for a wrong)
Let it be me, if the world is night
Shine my life like a light.

In the kind word you speak,
In the turn of the cheek,
And when your vision stays clear
In the face of your fear,

Then you see turning out the light switch is their only power,
When we stand like spotlights in a mighty tower,
All for one and one for all,
then we sing the common call...

Let it be me (this is not a fighting song)
Let it be me (not a wrong for a wrong)
Let it be me, if the world is night
Shine my life like a light.