Today, I’d like to share Kim Andre Arnesen’s choral piece, “Even When He Is Silent.” The text comes from words that were discovered at Auschwitz, etched on a wall by a Jewish prisoner. This performance is by the S:t Jacobs Vokalensemble.
Text:
I believe in the sun
I believe in the sun
Even when it’s not shining
Even when it’s not shining
Oh, shining
Oh, shining
I believe in the sun
I believe in the sun
I believe in the sun
I believe in the sun
I believe, I believe, I believe
I believe in love
I believe in love, I believe in love
I believe in the sun
Even when it’s not shining
Even when it’s not shining
Oh, shining
Oh, shining
I believe in the sun
I believe in the sun
I believe in the sun
I believe in the sun
I believe, I believe, I believe
I believe in love
I believe in love, I believe in love
In love
I believe in love (believe in love)
I believe in love (believe in love)
I believe (in love)
I believe (in love)
In love
Even when I
Even when I
Even when I feel it not
When I feel it not
I believe in God, in God
Even when (Even when) he is silent
He is silent
I believe (I believe)
I believe in God
When he is silent
When he is silent
When he is silent
When he is silent
Smuggling Grace 