Reach for the Stars

This song is for Soprano voice and Concert Band - with music by Itamar Danziger, with lyrics by Kelly Peasgood. It is meant to convey hope when disillusionment is tempting. Lyrics: When [A] still but a chi-ld, I'd reach up / to grasp at the stars for to hold them / with the palm of my ha-nd closing tight / yet never did I catch m-y dream / Slow [B] tears of bitterest memories / I'd hide in the fall of the rain / 'neath clouds full of sorrow and emptiness /I'd weep for my failure and pain / I [C] hold to the dream high above my head / the stars close, yet so far away from me / I know one day, I'll surely catch that light / and hold heaven's fires to m-y heart. The fancies of childhood will fade away / and wisdom will grow in its place Yet ever those stars beckon in the night / should I ever brave reaching to space / [D] interlude As [E] time measures new years and fu-tures unfold / and life brings new meaning to my days / I glance at the stars that shine above / and remember what I used to dream I'd [F] reach for the stars high above my head / I'd wish on the promise of light / I'd hold tight to dreams running through my heart / then I'd wake to the darkness of night The [G] stars, they fell away from me / yet burned bright in to my mind's eye- / Where the hopes of a young child might live once again / and answer the heart's crying Just [H] reach for the stars that shine high above / don't lose faith in what you can do / a dream never loses its honesty / unless shattered by bitter re- [I] -gret Interlude If I [J] stop grabbing stars and look all around / I find beauty surrounding me- / and the stars / they ignite my dreams here I soar to the skies on m-y own / I [K] dance with the world that I call my home / the stars keeping track of my flight / the power of a dream holds my head on high / as my hands hold on tight to a hope A [L] dream that I might weather / the lost years that I gave awa-y / don't let bitterness hold you fast / reach high for your dreams, let them in-