[Verse 1]
C Am C Am C
How great the darkness, how deep the need!
C Am C G C
How vast the problems of indifference, hate and greed;
D Dm D Dm C
A world rejecting the truth once known,
Am G C
And slipping down into a nightmare of its own;
Am F Dm
Is there a light that's strong enough to go,
C G
And metamorphasize the darkness that we know?
[Chorus]
C G Am F G C
I am a candle of the Lord, with truth and love more powerful than sword!
Am F C
o fan the flame, its single gleam diffuse,
F Dm
And let my spirit be the light that You can use.
Am C G C G C
I am the candle of the Lord. Light me! Light me!
[Verse 2]
C Am C Am C
How bright the light is from soul to soul:
C Am C G C
A myriad tiny flames expanding to a whole,
D Dm D Dm C
How strange the truth is when joined as one,
Am G C
And what a miracle this shining could become;
Am F Dm
It could transform the darkness that we know,
C G
And clearly light the way mankind must go.
[Chorus]
C G Am F G C
I am a candle of the Lord, with truth and love more powerful than sword!
Am F C
o fan the flame, its single gleam diffuse,
F Dm
And let my spirit be the light that You can use.
Am C G C G C
I am the candle of the Lord. Light me! Light me!