You Are the New Day
The MTA Barbershop Chorus performs John Rutter’s “You Are the New Day,” a hymn of hope and renewal. Introduced by a reflection on humanity’s responsibility to shape the future through “good minds and loving hearts,” the performance celebrates themes of love, life, and the dawning possibility of each new day—affirming that hope persists even when time seems to be running out.
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Transcript
Speaker 1
Whether tomorrow is wonderful or horrible will depend on the extent to which persons with good minds and loving hearts Become actively involved in shaping the future.
MTA Barbershop Chorus
Day, you are a 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
MTA Barbershop Chorus
Send the sun in time for dawn Let the birds all hail the morning Love of life will urge me say You are the new day
MTA Barbershop Chorus
When I lay me down at night, knowing we must Thoughts that we as humans small Could sow worlds and end it all Clie around me where they fall Before the new day
MTA Barbershop Chorus
One more day when time is running out for every one Like a breath I knew would come I reach for a new day
MTA Barbershop Chorus
Hope is life in loss of fee Just needs days in which to be Love of life sees hope for me Born on a new day You are the new day.