Re: Hero songs

[Elizabeth Zoller <LizzieZ...>]

Debbie Friedman's song is "And the Youth Shall See Visions."  I don't think
I've ever made it all the way through that song without getting choked up.
It's really a terrific song:
(From The Best of Debbie Friedman, Tara Publications)

Childhood was for fantasies for nursery rhymes and toys
The world was much too busy to understand small girls and boys
As I grew up I came to learn that life was not a game
That heroes just were people that we called another name

And the old shall dream dreams and the youth shall see visions
And our hopes shall rise up to the sky
We must live for today, we must build for tomorrow
Give us time, give us strength, give us life

Now I'm grown the years have passed I've come to understand
There are choices to be made and my life's at my command
I cannot have a future 'til I embrace the past
I promise to pursue the challenge time is going fast <chorus>

Today's the day I take my stand the future's mine to hold
Commitments that I make today are dreams from days of old
I have to make the way for generations come and go
I'll have to teach them what I've learned so they will come to know

That the old shall dream dreams and the youth shall see visions
And our hopes shall rise up to the sky
We must live for today, we must build for tomorrow
Give us time, give us strength, give us life
Give us time, give us strength, give us life
Give us life