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Light one candle for the maccabee children |
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With thanks that their light didn't die |
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Light one candle for the pain they endured |
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When their right to exist was denied |
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Light one candle for the terrible sacrifice |
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Justice and freedom demand |
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But light one candle for the wisdom to know |
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When the peacemaker's time is at hand |
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Chorus: |
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Don't let the light go out! |
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It's lasted for so many years! |
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Don't let the light go out! |
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Let it shine through our love and our tears. |
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Light one candle for the strength that we need |
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To never become our own foe |
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And light one candle for those who are suffering |
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Pain we learned so long ago |
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Light one candle for all we believe in |
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That anger not tear us apart |
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And light one candle to find us together |
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With peace as the song in our hearts |
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What is the memory that's valued so highly |
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That we keep it alive in that flame? |
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What's the commitment to those who have died |
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That we cry out they've not died in vain? |
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We have come this far always believing |
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That justice would somehow prevail |
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This is the burden, this is the promise |
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This is why we will not fail! |
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(chorus) |
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Don't let the light go out! |
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Don't let the light go out! |
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Don't let the light go out! |
