Brass Rebels

Turn the lights up

Bring the people in

We have serious hope to celebrate

Joy is not pretending pain is gone

It is finding one good reason to move on

It is laughing with a friend who stayed

Dancing because we made it through the day

Celebrate the small completed thing

Every honest effort deserves a little swing

A grateful heart can still demand

A kinder, fairer, more courageous land

We can care deeply And still come alive Joy gives the heart

more strength for the climb

Turn it up

Joy is a revolution Move your feet

Make room for a new solution We can laugh

And still be serious about changing lives

Joy is a revolution Come alive

(ooh yeah)

Hey, hey

Pass the joy around

Hey,

hey

Let it shake the ground

Call the person who has helped you grow

Tell them something beautiful they need to know

Bring some music to the working room

Let a little color

interrupt the gloom

Joy can help a tired spirit rest

Then return tomorrow ready for the test

It does not erase

what must be done It reminds us why the work is worth

becoming one

We can care deeply

And still come alive

Joy gives the heart more strength for the climb

Clap twice

Step back

Bring that good hope to the track

Brass high

Bass low

Give the whole room room to glow (hahaha)

Joy does not mean the road was easy

Joy means hardship did not own me

I can grieve I can heal

I can dance because my hope is real

Turn it up

Joy is a revolution Move your feet Make room for a new

solution We can laugh

Love, organize, and change our lives

Joy is a revolution Come alive

Turn it up

Let the hopeful sound arrive

Joy is a

revolution Come alive (come alive!)

Serious hope

Joyful work

Come alive (yeah!)