Sing About It

Performed by the Grand Rapids Women's Chorus May 21, 2022
Composed by Moira Smiley
Soloists: Sarah Allmon and Isabel Abbott
Directed by Blithe Brouwers
Video editing by Dave Kagan of Sensitography
SING ABOUT IT
It’s so sad. We don’t understand each other yet.
How can this be when we’ve been living together for so long?
So close to each other’s beauty?
It’s so sad. Makes me feel so bad. I can’t stand by anymore
Gonna sing about it.
Gonna sing it when I feel like cryin’- when I’m uncomfortable and don’t know why yet
When I am guilty of the laissez-faire-my ignorance of you laid bare
I’ll talk to you before I raise my hand, so you can call on me to make a stand.
Am I responsible? Are you responsible? What are we responsible for?
I’m gonna look up from my own concerns, reach across the chasm of what I never learned
So wide, so full of burning - your eyes are turning to me now, saying ‘it’s time-
it’s way past time - to step outside the echo…echo…chamber’
Stop pretending it’s alright, stop pretending this is not our fight.
Gonna sing it when I feel like cryin’- when I’m uncomfortable and don’t know why yet
When I am guilty of the laissez-faire-my ignorance of you laid bare
I’ll talk to you before I raise my hand, so you can call on me to make a stand.
Am I responsible? Are you responsible? What are we responsible for?
Gonna sing about it.