For each child that’s born, a morning start rises

and sings to the universe who we are.

We are our grandmothers’ prayers,

and we are our grandfathers’ dreamings,

we are the breath of our ancestors,

we are the spirit of God.

We are mothers of courage and fathers of time,

we are daughters of dust and the sons of great visions,

we’re sisters of mercy and brothers of lover,

we are lovers of life and the builders of nations,

we’re seekers of truth and keepers of faiths,

we are makers of peace and the wisdom of ages.

Resilience,

we are strong;

shoulder to shoulder keep movin’ on,

Resilience,

make a new plan;

stand up again and say yes we can.

Oh! Oh!

We are strong;

hold on!

I wanna make it and I know we will,

yes it’s hard to keep goin’ but it’s worse to stand still.

Resilience.

Listen more often to things than to beings.

‘Tis the ancestors’ breath when the fire’s voice is heard.

‘Tis the ancestors’ breath in the voice of the waters.

Those who have dies, have never, never left.

The dead are not under the earth.

They are in the rustling trees, they are in the groaning woods.

They are in the crying grass. They are in the moaning rocks.

Those who have died have never, never left.

The dead have a pact with the living.

They are in the woman’s breast, they are in the wailing child.

They are with us in the home. They are with us in the crowd.

Rook, rook, read from your book  

Who murders who, and where is the treasure hid?  Crow, crow, spill all you know  

Is that my name on the bell?  

Rook, rook, gaze in the brook  

If there's a secret, can I be part of it?  

Crow, crow, before I'll let go  

Say, is that my name on the bell?  

Soar up high, see the semaphore from the washing lines  Break the code of the whispering chimneys and traffic signs  What's the message that's written under the base of clouds?  Plans eternal, I know you know, so don't blurt out loud  

Rook, rook, by hook or by crook  

I'll make you tell me what this whole thing's about  Crow, crow, why can't you show  

If that's my name on the bell?  

On the wings of night, I fly too, above field and stream  My head bursting with knowledge 'til I wake from the dream  If I die and I find that I had a soul inside  

Promise me that you'll take it up on its final ride  

Rook, rook, gaze in the brook  

If there's a secret, can I be part of it?  

Crow, crow, before I'll let go  

Say, is that my name on the bell?  

Is that my name on the bell?

You gotta put one foot in front of the other

And lead with love.

Put one foot in front of the other

And lead with love.

Don’t give up hope.

You’re not alone.

Don’t give up hope.

Keep movin’ on.

You gotta put one foot in front of the other

And lead with love.

Put one foot in front of the other

And lead with love.

Lift up your eyes

Don’t you despair

Look up ahead

The path is there

You gotta put one foot in front of the other

And lead with love.

Put one foot in front of the other

And lead with love.

I know you’re scared

And I’m scared too

But here I am

Right next to you

You gotta put one foot in front of the other

And lead with love.

Put one foot in front of the other

And lead with love.

Lift up your hands

And raise your voice

Cause it’s my body

And it’s my choice

You gotta put one foot in front of the other

And lead with love.

Put one foot in front of the other

And lead with love.

You build a nest of yellow yarn

You hope to God the yellowed yarn

Is soft enough to break your fall

Should you fall, should you fall

You build a nest of yellow yarn

You hope to God the yellowed yarn

Is soft enough to break your fall

Should you fall, should you fall

You build a nest of yellow yarn

You hope to God the yellowed yarn

Is soft enough to break your fall

Should you fall, should you fall

You build a nest of yellow yarn

You hope to God the yellowed yarn

Is soft enough to break your fall

Should you fall, should you fall

You build a nest of yellow yarn

You hope to God the yellowed yarn

Is soft enough to break your fall

Should you fall, should you fall

Blood is let and tears are kept

In hollow chests while sweat's ignored

However spent, our tears and sweat

Just kept secret and strewn from pores

Blood is let and tears are kept

In hollow chests while sweat's ignored

However spent, our tears and sweat

Just kept secret and strewn from pores

Keep your silence golden

And words important

You're only a handsome animal

Blood is let and tears are kept

In hollow chests while sweat's ignored

However spent, our tears and sweat

Just kept secret and strewn from pores

Blood is let and tears are kept

In hollow chests while sweat's ignored

However spent, our tears and sweat

Just kept secret and strewn from pores

Keep your silence golden

And words important

You're only a handsome animal

Keep your silence golden

And words important

You're only a handsome animal

Breathe in,

Breathe out.

When I breathe in,

I breathe in peace.

When I breathe out,

I breathe out love.

Breathe soft,

ye winds,

ye waters gently flow.

Shield her, ye trees,

Ye flow’rs, around her grow,

Breathe soft,

ye winds,

ye waters gently flow.

Breathe soft,

ye winds,

ye waters gently flow.

Ye swains, I beg you,

pass in silence by.

My love,

My love in yonder vale asleep

doth lie.

Breathe soft,

ye winds,

ye waters gently flow.

Shield her, ye trees,

Ye flow’rs, around her grow,

Breathe soft,

ye winds,

ye waters gently flow.

My love in yonder vale asleep

doth lie.

Breathe soft,

ye winds,

breathe soft,

ye winds.

O del mio dolce ardor Bramato oggetto,

L'aura che tu respiri,

Alfin respiro.

O vunque il guardo io giro,

Le tue vaghe sembianze

Amore in me dipinge:

Il mio pensier si finge

Le più liete speranze;

E nel desio che così

M'empie il petto

Cerco te, chiamo te, spero e sospiro.

Oh, desired object

Of my sweet ardor,

The air which you breathe,

At last I breathe.

Wherever I turn my glance

Your lovely features

Paint love for me:

My thoughts imagine

The most happy hopes,

And in the longing which

Fills my bosom

I seek you, I call you,

I hope, and I sigh.

If we are only stardust

Let your names reach to the sky above us

Like petals wafting on a breeze

We lift you up beyond our reach

“Kum Buba Yali, Kum Buba Tambe”

Amen, Amen

“Kum Buba Yali, Kum Buba Tambe”

We say your names

If we are only stardust

May your blood never be in vain

Life petals wafting on a breeze

We lift you up beyond our reach

“Kum Buba Yali, Kum Buba Tambe”

Amen, Amen

“Kum Buba Yali, Kum Buba Tambe”

We say your names

Each day we grieve another face

Maybe all this stardust

Will carry us home one day

To a home where we can run

A home where we can pray

A home where we can breathe,

To sleep and dream without fear—

Is justice this far away?

We cry your names

For the strength to keep on fighting

With the hope that you are flying

“Kum Buba Yali, Kum Buba Tambe”

Stardust

I been walkin’

with my face turned to the sun;

weight on my shoulders,

a bullet in my gun.

Oh, I got eyes in the back of my head,

just in case I have to run.

I do what I can when I can while I can for my people,

while the clouds rolls back and the starts fill the night.

That’s when I’m gonna stand up,

take my people with me.

Together we are going to a brand new home.

Far across the river,

can you hear freedom calling,

calling me to answer?

Gonna keep on keepin’ on.

I can feel it in my bones.

Early in the mornin’,

before the sun beings to shine,

we’re gonna start movin’

towards that separating line.

I’m wading through muddy waters;

you know I got a made up mind.

And I don’t mind if I lose any blood on the way to salvation.

And I’ll fight with the strength that I got until I die.

So I’m gonna stand up,

take my people with me.

Together we are going to a brand new home.

Far across the river,

can you hear freedom calling,

calling me to answer?

Gonna keep on keepin’ on.

And I know what’s around the bend

might be hard to face ‘cause I’m alone.

And I just might fail,

but, Lord knows, I tried,

sure as stars fill up the sky.

Stand up,

take my people with me.

Together we are going to a brand new home.

Far across the river,

can you hear freedom calling,

calling me to answer?

Gonna keep on keepin’ on.

I’m gonna stand up,

take my people with me.

Together we are going to a brand new home.

Far across the river,

can you hear freedom calling,

calling me to answer?

Gonna keep on keepin’ on.

I can feel it in my bones.

I go to prepare a place for you.

Bend the arc and break the ceiling.

Human rights for human beings.

Bend the arc, bend the arc.

Reach out your hand and help another.

We were meant to help each other.

Bend the arc, bend the arc.

You can hold my hand

When you need to let go.

I can be a mountain

When you’re feeling valley low.

I can be a streetlight

Showing you the way home.

If you can hold my hand

When you need to let go.

I want a house with a crowded table

And a place by the fire for everyone

Let us take on the world while we’re young and able

And bring us back together when the day is done.

If we want a garden

We’re gonna have to sow the seed

Plant a little happiness

Let the roots run deep.

If it’s love that we give

Then it’s love that we reap

If we want a garden

We’re gonna have to sow the seeds.

I want a house with a crowded table

And a place by the fire for everyone

Let us take on the world while we’re young and able

And bring us back together when the day is done.

The door is always open

Your picture’s on my wall

Everyone’s a little broken

But everyone belongs

Yeah everyone belongs

I want a house with a crowded table

And a place by the fire for everyone

Let us take on the world while we’re young and able

And bring us back together when the day is done.

Maura Collier

Rayelle Cowsert

Jane Davis

Ari Kahan

Ivy Kim

Roscoe Kim

Theo Klumpp

Abigail Peraza

Hannah Shirley

Malika Siegel

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