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ONE VOICE
Words and Music by Howie Klausner & Ron Eng
I am one voice. Lost in a world of noise.
You can listen if you want to.
It's your own choice.
Life is for living. Love is for giving.
Time won't wait for you, it goes faster every day.
One voice, still and small.
One voice. Saying it all.
I am one voice. I'm calling out to you.
You know what I've got to say.
You know what you've got to do.
The world is loud and cold, gets meaner every day.
Listen to me, listen. Listen to what I'm saying,
One voice. Still and small.
One voice. Saying it all.
There's just no use in shouting.
There's too much shouting anyway.
No-one listens to your shouting.
Nobody hears what you're saying.
Solo
I am just one voice. A whisper in the dark.
You can listen if you want to.
But listen with your heart.
Life is for living. Love is forgiving.
And time won't wait for you, it goes faster every day.
One voice. Still and small.
One voice. Saying it all.
We search with eyes, for a single drop in the ocean.
When truth is in the hearing, yet still silent in motion.
In the stillness of sunrise, the thunder of the wind,
The laughter of children... listen!
To the whisper within.
One life, one world. One race, one people.
One truth, one spirit, one love
One voice.
PRODUCTION NOTES
Arranged by Ron Eng
Lead Vocal - Howie Klausner
Background Chorus - Lisa Henson, Lisa Sadowsky, Vanessa Townsell, Willard Overstreet, Ron Eng & Howie Klausner
Electric Guitars - Ron Eng
Guitar Solos - Ron Eng
Organ - Jim Clarie
Drums - Al Velasquez
Bass - Mike Velasquez
CREDITS
I guess every writer felt like they had to say something after September 11. I wrote "One Voice" maybe a month after, once the anger and fear had begun to die down. It's just a song about the holy spirit that speaks through and to us all, if we let it.
I was just going to end it after the last verse, but I didn't think I'd said everything I was supposed to say here. We jokingly called it "the sermon" when we first laid it down with Jim Clarie playing that Hammond B-3. Reminded me of some churches I played as a kid.
The night we recorded the choir on this song was one of the most powerful moments of my life. Artists spend their entire working lives in search of such a time: when the work speaks back to you.
"One Voice" was that moment for me.
