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Say Hello to the Light

from BackTracks (1999) by James Hersch

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Making sense and making hope are two very different things. Sometimes it makes no sense to hope and there’s no hope of making sense. That’s what death is to me. That’s also what faith is. Hope for a reunion, as senseless as it may seem.

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It was a cold dark night when the angels came
Held my mother’s hand and they called her name
It’s a brand new world now that she’s gone
See the fire of her colors in the brand new dawn

I’ll hold to the string between the dark and the light
I’ll wait for the someday, for the beautiful sight
One dance through the door, one gone in the night
Say goodbye to the dark, say hello to the light

There’s a world of pain, there’s a world of tears
There’s also a time when the pain disappears
The reunion waits like a brand new dawn
Let the sun come up, let the pain be gone

There are stories unwritten, there are songs to be sung
In the eyes of the old, in the cries of the young
I’m moved by the faces of those who came before me
Take me off to their places, tell me their stories

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from BackTracks (1999), released June 1, 1999

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James Hersch Minneapolis, Minnesota

I live on this piece of prairie. I'm passionate and dedicated to writing songs in hopes of singing them for people. I don't think I could continue without both ends of that process. Create then hope. It's here I write songs, and here I wait to sing them for others. ... more

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