From the recording Carry the Light
"Carry the Light" was written at the request and for the Canadian non-profit, Machik https://www.machik.org, to help further its mission to grow "a global community with a vision for a strong healthy and vibrant Tibet". Featuring Catherine Marx (Reba) on piano, produced by Mike Severs, Vocals by Anne E. DeChant
Lyrics
Carry the Light - Anne E. DeChant ©2026
What does it take to disappear
How many steps ‘till I’m not here
Steal my house and cut the trees take mountaintops with grasping greed
Stop the wheels from spinning the holy bells from ringing
Still my prayers are flying free
The golden thread runs through me
So no matter where I am
I am not the story’s end
I’m the future I’m the past
I’m everything that lasts
I am hope I am faith
I am the promise made a way to walk us through the night
I am here and I carry the light I carry the light
Oh let me hear my mother tongue
I knew it first when I was young
Take me up where I can breath to the clouds and waves of green
Home will ease my sorrow and point me toward tomorrow
The Ngari winds are blowing free
Across the plains reminding me
That no matter where I am
I am not the story’s end
I’m the future I’m the past
I’m everything that lasts
I am hope I am faith
I am the promise made a way to walk us through the night
I am here and I carry the light I will carry the light I will carry the light
If you turn and face me how can you erase me
We’re all connected aren’t we
It’s written in our memory
Tibet Tibet I’ll never leave
So no matter where I am
I am not the story’s end
I’m the future I’m the past
I’m everything that lasts
I am hope I am faith
I am the promise made a way to walk us through the night
I am here and I carry the light I will carry the light…