Sing About It - Smiley, Moira / Singing The World Awake (2022-2023)

Season	2022-2023
Performance Date	May 12, 2023
Performance Year	2023
Performance Time	7:30PM
Location	Ordway Concert Hall, Saint Paul, MN
Performance Title	Singing The World Awake
Composer	Moira Smiley
Country	United Stated
Year Composed	2015
Timing	4'00”
Performers	VocalEssence Chorus & VocalEssence Ensemble Singers, Singers Of This Age, Moira Smiley
Text Translation	It’s so sad We don’t understand each other yet How can this be when we’ve been living together so long? So close to each other’s beauty? It’s so sad. It makes me feel so bad. I’m not gonna stand for it anymore. Gonna sing about it Gonna sing it when I feel like cryin’ When I’m uncomfortable & 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 echo echo…chamber Stop pretending it’s alright, Stop pretending this is not our fight. —Moira Smiley

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