Single Candle - David Wilcox

A match will burn for long enough to light a single candle

A candle only burns until the conversation’s done

One bright conversation shines a light across a lifetime

Every life has time enough to shine — like the sun

At first you couldn’t listen.

You held to your suspicion

‘Cause this new point of view seemed bold and strange

But that simple truth’s insistence melted your resistance

‘Till all at once you knew that what you knew must change

Your search for easy answers only led to harder questions

But you rose up when that simple faith fell through, and

Fearless in the rubble, you kept shaking the foundations

You weren’t afraid to shatter what you thought you knew

A gentle revolution that could change a generation

Your words could strike a match and light a flame

And one by one the light spread through the people of a

Nation, ‘till the tyranny of hate would never be the same

On the balcony in Memphis with a bullet through your body

We heard you say a strong and gentle prayer

They try to kill the future, as if just a gun could stop you

But the heart of you is beating everywhere