This lyric is: #476

Phoenix Rising

It is not an ordinary thing,
When you hear the bells of freedom ring.
It is not an ordinary thing,
Even through our tears we still can sing.

All the harm, all the pain and the destruction,
Seems to be - on the ground among the ashes.
Silence there - now demands - Please do not be passive.
Create a peace, living strong,
For lives that will outlast us.

Chorus:
It is not an ordinary sign -
People touching hearts and touching minds;
Finding in each other humankind,
Reunited in eternal time.

Verse:
From the ground, rise the voices of compassion,
Crying out - We reject the hate with passion;
We have seen - through it all - when people really care,
Walls go down, all over town, no more barriers are there.

Those we lost, all the fathers and the mothers -
Family, friends, all are sisters, all are brothers.
Through our prayers, we learned how
To treasure one another.
We can write a history unlike any other.

See the lighthouse glowing in the night,
Shining bright with wisdom's inner sight,
However dark the desperate blinding night
A phoenix rises - soaring in the Light.

Reaching through the storm to Dawn's new light,
Phoenix rising from the Blinding night.

[This message has been edited by blakeh (edited 09-03-2002).]