| Tell me why | |
| Why you got your secret locked inside? | |
| Why you trying to keep it for your own | |
| If he asks for bread | |
| Tell me why, why you giving him a stone | |
| You know | |
| The reason for the hope | |
| That burns your soul | |
| The reason that you're sleeping peacefully | |
| Wasn't meant to be undisclosed | |
| Oh, don't you know | |
| When you live in a city on a hill | |
| You've got to shine your light | |
| When you live in a city on a hill | |
| You've got to shine your light | |
| Go and tell | |
| Go and bring them water from a different well | |
| Running with your candle into blackest night | |
| To be salt and light | |
| To the wide, wide world | |
| 'Cause when you live in a city on a hill | |
| You've got to shine your light | |
| When you live in a city on a hill | |
| You've got to shine your light | |
| Your heart is filled with wonder | |
| Your cup is running over still | |
| When you live in a city on a hill | |
| (Shine your light) | |
| (Shine your light) | |
| (Shine...) | |
| When you live in a city on a hill | |
| You've got to shine your light | |
| When you live in a city on a hill | |
| You've got to shine your light |