This is a kind of anthem idea for the European Union. For now, it doesn't really have anything. They play Beethoven's Ode To Joy sometimes. Beethoven is pretty good, but it's not exactly stirring stuff. Maybe if people could get behind the European idea with their hearts as well as their brains, things would be less of a mess. Not really interested in starting an argument about Brexit, etc. It avoids political points and focuses on the positives. Just looking for suggestions on the song, which is still a work in progress.

https://soundcloud.com/themysteriousbeings/the-same-sun-shines-on-us-all/s-sDV6z

The last verse is supposed to have young people from various countries singing in their language. I'm just filling in until I find them. I don't actually know any Danish beyond the word for beer, so that last one is probably hopelessly mangled. I'd really like to have a whole choir on the last chorus, but that might be asking a bit much smile


THE SAME SUN SHINES ON US ALL
(Words & Music by Gavin Sinclair)

From the wild northern ocean
To the bright southern sea
There’s a land that was given
To you and to me
A dream that was born
In the ashes of war
It’s a dream that is worth
Fighting for

In the bright brilliant blue of the skies over Spain
Through Scotland’s soft mists and sweet summer rain
Over fields where those young men were slain - not in vain
The same sun shines on us all

From the wild northern ocean
To the bright southern sea
There’s a land that was given
To you and to me
A dream that was born
In the ashes of war
It’s a dream that is worth
Fighting for

The cathedrals they built, the fields that they tilled
Musicians and poets, the souls that they filled
Theirs is the spirit that lives in us still
The same sun shines on us all

From the wild northern ocean
To the bright southern sea
There’s a land that was given
To you and to me
A dream that was born
In the ashes of war
It’s a dream that is worth
Fighting for

This is our dream, Dies ist unser Traum
C’est notre rêve, Dit is onze droom
Questo è il nostro sogno, Dette er vores drøm
The same sun shines on us all.