Oh let your little light shine
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Let your little light shine
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Shine on Vegas and Wall Street
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Place your bets
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Shine on the fishermen
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With nothing in their nets
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Shine on rising oceans and evaporating seas
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Shine on our Frankenstein technologies
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Shine on science
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With its tunnel vision
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Shine on fertile farmland
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Buried under subdivisions
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Let your little light shine
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Let your little light shine
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Shine on the dazzling darkness
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That restores us in deep sleep
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Shine on what we throw away
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And what we keep
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Shine on Reverend Pearson
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Who threw away
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The vain old God
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kept Dickens and Rembrandt and Beethoven
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And fresh plowed sod
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Shine on good earth, good air, good water
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And a safe place
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For kids to play
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Shine on bombs exploding
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Half a mile away
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Let your little light shine
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Let your little light shine
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Shine on world-wide traffic jams
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Honking day and night
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Shine on another asshole
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Passing on the right!
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Shine on the red light runners
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Busy talking on their cell phones
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Shine on the Catholic Church
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And the prisons that it owns
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Shine on all the Churches
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They all love less and less
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Shine on a hopeful girl
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In a dreamy dress
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Let your little light shine
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Let your little light shine
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Shine on good humor
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Shine on good will
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Shine on lousy leadership
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Licensed to kill
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Shine on dying soldiers
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In patriotic pain
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Shine on mass destruction
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In some god's name!
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Shine on the pioneers
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Those seekers of mental health
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Craving simplicity
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They traveled inward
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Past themselves...
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May all their little lights shine
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Shine
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| Joni Mitchell |
