You Are The New Day / King's Singers

 

The King's Singers are a British a cappella, two-time Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble who celebrated their 40th anniversary in 2008. Their name recalls King's College in Cambridge, England, where the group was formed by six choral schllars in 1968. In the United Kingdom, their popularity peaked in the 1970s and early 1980s. Thereafter they began to reach a wider international audience, appearing frequently on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in the U.S. In 1987, they were prominently featured as guests on the Emmy Award winning ABC-TV special Julie Andrews: The Sound Of Christmas. In February 2009 their CD, Simple Gifts, won a Grammy Award for Best Classical Crossover Album. In February 2012 they won Best Choral Performance at the 54th Grammy Awards along with Eric Whitacre for the album "Light and Gold," on which they performed "The Stolen Child," written for the group by Whitacre. <Wikipedia>

 

 

  

 

You Are The New Day / King's Singers   


You are the new day
You are the new day  

I will love you more than me
And more than yesterday
If you can but prove to me
You are the new day

Send the sun in time for dawn
Let the birds all hail the morning
Love of life will let me say
You are the new day

When I lay me down at night
Knowing we must pay
Thoughts occur that this night might
Stay yesterday

Thoughts that we as humans small
Could slow worlds and end it all
Lie around me when they fall
Before the new day

One more day when time
Is running out for everyone
Like a breath I knew would come
I reach for a new day

Hope is my philosophy
Just needs days in which to be
Love of life means hope for me

Born on the new day

You are the new day
You are the new day