You are the new Day

I woke up singing this song this morning, one of my favorites. I love the a cappella and close harmony and most especially, the lyrics! I had fun searching for this on YouTube...lots of posts by high school students extolling this song and talking about singing it in their choirs and glee clubs. I'm so happy high school students still have these activities, since they were so formative in my life. I think that's where I probably learned this song.

Anyway, the lyrics, and prayers for the New Day!

You are the New Day

I will love you more than me
and more than yesterday
If you can but prove to me
you are the new day

Send the sun in time for dawn
Let the birds all hail the morning
Love of life will urge me say
you are the new day

When I lay me down at night
knowing we must pay
Thoughts occur that this night might
stay yesterday

Thoughts that we as humans small
could slow worlds and end it all
lie around me where they fall
before the new day

One more day when time is running out
for everyone
Like a breath I knew would come I reach for
the new day

Hope is my philosophy
Just needs days in which to be
Love of life means hope for me
borne on a new day

You are the new day