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Words and Music by Arthur Durkee

Originally written as a solo songwriter poem and music, Shine now exists in multiple versions, including solo lead sheet, notated TTBB arrangement with soloist, and this string band version.

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(Let It) Shine

Lyrics ©2012 Arthur Durkee

Some things don't need to be forgiven
like stars that fall from desert skies
like tears that urge the heart to widen
like a newborn daughter's cries

Some places in the heart are broken
it's friendship's edge we use to bind
ourselves together to each other
your limping half-healed heart to mine

There's nothing here can't be redeemed
if given life and give time
no sundered homeland we can't heal
no sacred mountain we can't climb

City of death or dream of light
whatever path your feet may find
valley of shadow where rivers meet
release your love and let it shine

Let it shine

Let it shine

credits

from The Inner Light: Music for Chorus, released November 23, 2019
Performed by American Roads String Band:

Todd Winterrowd, lead vocal; with AD, Edward Anderson, Danny Atwater, Tim Brennan, Andrew Gallas, Dan Ross, Jeff Roy, voices and instruments

Recorded live in concert March 2015, Madison, WI.

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Arthur Durkee Ann Arbor, Michigan

Arthur Durkee is a composer & songwriter who records & performs on Chapman Stick, bass, analog modular synths, bamboo & wood flutes, keys, frame drums, and voice. He has won awards for composed, notated music as well as for his recordings, & is a published poet, & designer & illustrator. ... more

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