Vocal Liberation Lyrics
Oughta Be
Words by Martin Luther King Jr.
Music by Jesse Sachs & Kyle Lemle
I can never be what I oughta be
Until you are what you oughta be
And you can never be what you ought be
Until I am what I oughta be
This interrelated reality
This inescapable mutuality
Street Choir Medley
Rise Like Flowers by The Peace Poets
No One’s Getting Left Behind by Joshua Blaine
This Joy from the Civil Rights Movement/Gospel Tradition and arranged by Resistance Revival Chorus
We’re gonna rise like flowers
Out the concrete
We’re gonna rise like warriors
Into these streets
No one’s is getting left behind this time
No one’s is getting left behind
Not this time
No one’s is getting left behind this time
We’ll get there together or never get there at all
We’ll get there together or never get there at all
This JOY that I have
The world didn’t give it to me x3
The world didn’t give it
The world can’t take it away
(each round with a different word in caps)
Ceasefire
Words by adrienne maree brown
Arranged by RISE choir
We breathe together (x3)
Stop the occupation
We march together…
We grieve together…
Ceasefire!...
We breathe together…
Free Palestine…
It’s All Wild
By Erin Greenwell
It’s all wild
It’s all free
It’s all love
Let it be
Feel the Sun
Feel the breeze
Feel the shade
Beneath these trees
Hear the buzz of bumblebees
Hear the birds
Sing what they sing
We’re all wild
We’re all free
We’re all love
Let it be
Standing Stone
By Melanie DeMore
I will be your standing stone
I will stand by you
One Thing
by Kele Nitoto
If I know one thing
I know I will LOVE
If I know one thing
I know I will LOVE
I know I will LOVE
I know I will LOVE
I know I will LOVE LOVE LOVE
I know I will LOVE
(each round with a different word in caps)
Dayenu
By Kyle Lemle
Dayenu…
It would have been enough
For you and all that you are
And me and all that I am
This stone among the stars
This grain among the sand
This breath
This day
This life
Dayenu…
Alive
by Kyle Lemle
Oh I pray to wake up my life
Yes I pray to wake up my life
Cuz every single day I am alive
I am alive
Every single day I am alive
I am alive
Lyrics from past shows
Open the Ocean
Open the ocean wide in us
Open the ocean wide
Take all the pain inside of us
Take all the pain inside
Open the ocean wide in us
Open the ocean wide
Take all the pain inside of us
Take all the pain inside
We are one love
We are one
We are one
We are one love
Grandmother Sequoia
Tall and slow, she’ll watch us from above
Strong and low, her roots are alive
Taproot to the soul of the earth
and the heights of the heavens
Grandmother Sequoia calls - listen, listen
Grandmother Sequoia calls - listen