Stand for Love (Live) - Original Song by Ryan Andersen
Channel: Ryan Andersen
Date: 2017-08-09

Original lyrics and music by Ryan Andersen at http://www.racomposition.com

May we find the blessing in the opportunity to look into the mirror and
See the darkness hiding in the depths of you and me that we must
Find a way to shine a light on if we wish to bring about a world 
A world of love and peace

May we have compassion for our brothers and our sisters who we judge have made the
Wrong decision for the children yet to walk upon this earth and 
Breath the air and drink the water o the rivers we protect from greed
From our endless greed

Chorus:
Don't give in, don't give in to separation
Find the strength to stand for love, 'cus love will win
And in the end we all return to one

May we find the reason why the universe would make us see ourselves for who we 
Are and who we hate is someone else we cannot change who lives off
In a foreign place where we cannot relate to them as human beings
Who bleed red just like us

May we find the meaning underneath the grief that ravages our deepest needs for
Safety and security now put yourself inside the shoes of
Family whose kin have died inside the buildings that we bomb for peace
In the name of liberty

May we find the beauty in the sickness that's infecting our humanity that
Guides us to the medicine to heal and evolve beyond
Illusion that we're powerless to manifest the future that we see
Where we are ruled by peace

May we seek the wisdom of the elders who for centuries have walked upon this
Land in peace and harmony with mother earth and father sky and
All the plants and animals and all the spirits guiding us in dreams
To our great divine

Chorus

May we make a promise to the warriors who've fought for empathy before that
We will do our part to rid our hearts of hate and find a calm where
We can sit in silence seeking truth and justice in our unity
With palms pressed to the sky

May we find the wonder in the mystery that all of this eventually will
Up and disappear and all we've struggled for and suffered through is 
Nothing by a moment on our journey to discover that we're gods
The gods we came to find

Chorus

May we find our neighbors who will take our hands and march with us into the streets
To peacefully reclaim our rights to free will and democracy and
When the men with money send the men with guns to stop us we won't run
We will will march right on

May we end the system that's dependent on the separation of ourselves from
What we know is sacred so that we can make believe there's nothing
Greater than the doldrums of existence so we live complacently
At the cost of all of life

Chorus