Heart Wide Open
Performance hints: Starting pitch G
21stc de-escalation faith hope resistance
First verse
Tenor/Melody:
Keep your heart wide open,
Though the waves want to push you around.
You gottta keep your heart wide open,
'Til your faith brings you back to solid ground.
Second verse
Tenor/Melody:
I'm going keep my heart wide open,
Though the waves want to push me around.
I'm gonna keep my heart wide open,
'Til my faith brings me back to solid ground.
Alto/Soprano/Bass:
I'm gonna keep, I'm gonna keep,
I'm gonna keep my heart wide open
Though the waves wanna push
Though the waves wanna push me around.
I'm gonna keep, I'm gonna keep,
I'm gonna keep my heart wide open,
'Til my faith brings me back,
'Til my faith brings me back to solid ground.
Third verse
Tenor/Melody:
We're gonna keep our hearts wide open,
Though the waves want to push us around.
We're gonna keep our heart wide open,
'Til our faith brings us back to solid ground.
Alto/Soprano/Bass:
We're gonna keep, we're gonna keep,
We're gonna keep our hearts wide open
Though the waves wanna push
Though the waves wanna push us around.
We're gonna keep, we're gonna keep,
We're gonna keep our hearts wide open
'Til our faith brings us back,
'Til our faith brings us back to solid ground.
Credits: Lea Morris (2020)
Notes: Begin with tenors singing the melody. Then, bring in the altos. Then the sopranos. Finally the basses.
Teachability: easy
Initial participation:low