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This is the twenty-fifth of my proposed 262 song-a-weeks. Wish me luck! And thanks for listening. If you wanna see the video, it's here: youtu.be/oLLcAjNr4LE - and if you want to help me keep doing this, throw me a buck a week at my Patreon: www.patreon.com/BrendanMilburn

lyrics

what do you do when there's nothing left to be done?
what do you say when there's no more words to be said?
how do you fight, when the bad guys already won?
how do you get out of bed when you just want to stay home and hide your head?

how do you stand, when you're weighted down with your grief?
how do you quell all the queasiness this day will bring?
how do you drown out this noxious "hail to the chief"?
what can you do? what can you say? what can you sing?

you sing:
this little light of mine
I'm gonna let it shine
this little light of mine
I'm gonna let it shine
this little light of mine
I'm gonna let it shine
let it shine, let it shine, let it shine

I'm gonna be a beacon,
I'm gonna be a lighthouse
shining over these stormy seas of hate and hopelessness and fear
I'm gonna be a searchlight
I'm gonna be a luminary
I'm gonna keep my porchlight on so all will know they are welcome here

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

and let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.

I'm gonna be a beacon,
I'm gonna be a lighthouse
shining over these stormy seas of hate and hopelessness and fear
I'm gonna be a lighthouse

credits

from brendan & the over​-​extended circumstances (262 songs, volume 2), track released January 22, 2017
The wonderful lighthouse photo is by William Bout and came from unspash - thank you!
all singing and instrumenting and producering by Brendan Milburn. Except: additional unintentional but very vehement background vocals and squawking by Arlen Tucker Milburn, age 8 months.
copyright (c) 2017 by Brendan Milburn
administered by WB Music Corp

this song owes a bit to my arrangement of Rachel Bissex's beautiful song "Starting Over" which also incorporates the spiritual "This Little Light Of Mine" - check it out here: www.cdbaby.com/cd/rachelbissex5

I'm also using the last five lines of "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus, which you can find on a plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty. It's the kind of radical inclusion message that this country was founded on and that we need to remember in these days of big orange angry clown men.

All rights reserved, but if you wanna use this for something reach out to me and and let's work something out.

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Brendan Milburn Seattle, Washington

Brendan Milburn is a music teacher and a dad. In his former life he wrote musicals, songs for animated movies, shows for theme parks and cruise lines. He used to play in a band called GrooveLily. Now he has chickens, cats, and kids, and he is making a song a week. ... more

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