Shine on our Frankenstein
Oh, let your little light shine

They traveled inward
Who threw away the vain old God
Licensed to kill
Shine on science
And kept Dickens and Rembrandt and Beethoven
Those seekers of mental health
Shine on all the fishermen

With nothing in their nets
Shine on another asshole
Shine on fertile farmland
And evaporating seas
Shine on lousy leadership
In some God's name
Shine on a hopeful girl
They all love less and less

And the prisons that it owns
Past themselves

Shine on the dazzling darkness
Honking day and night
Shine on bombs exploding
Oh, let your little light shine
Buried under subdivisions
May all their little lights shine
Shine on good humor
In a dreamy dress

Shine, shine, shine
Shine on what we throw away
Shine on the pioneers

That restores us in deep sleep
Shine on all the Churches
Craving simplicity

Shine on rising oceans

And fresh plowed sod
Shine, shine
Let your little light shine

Shine on Vegas and Wall Street
Passing on the right
Shine on good will

Shine on good earth, good air, good water
Shine on all the red light runners
Busy talking on their cell phones
Place your bets
Half a mile away
Let their little light shine
Let your little light shine
Shine on Reverend Pearson
Oh, let your little light shine
Shine on mass destruction

With its tunnel vision, tunnel vision
In patriotic pain
Oh, let your little light shine
Shine on the Catholic Church
Technologies
And what we keep
Shine on dying soldiers
And a safe place for kids to play
Shine on world wide traffic jams