Childrens Version

Light

Always Look on the Bright Side by Monty Python ◦ A silly song about making the best of terrible things
The Sun Is A Guy Who Travels Through The Sky by Raymond Arnold and They Might Be Giants ◦ An antiquated-style ode to the sun
Singing Up The Sun by Ben Newman ◦ The point of a solstice celebration
Galaxy Song by Monty Python ◦ How big the universe is and how lucky we are to be a part of it
X Days of X Risk by Raymond Arnold ◦ Six (or more) ways the world could end
Toast To The Fallen ◦ by Daniel Speyer ◦ Some peoples don't make it
The Sun Is A Mass Of Incandescent Gas by They Might Be Giants (Or Glazer & Evans) ◦ A mostly accurate ode to the sun

Legends by Julia Ecklar ◦ Our space program passes into the past, and maybe into legend

Bitter Wind Blown by Raymond Arnold ◦ A lullaby for a child that is shivering in the cold
Empty Chairs At Empty Tables by L. David Lewis, Kim Williams, and Ed Hill ◦ A lone survivor contemplates a failed revolution
Hymn to the Breaking Strain by Rudyard Kipling ◦ Abide the twin damnation, to fail and know we fail
The Next Right Thing ◦ by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez (from Frozen II) ◦ When your problems are too big to face in their entirety
Bitter Wind March by Raymond Arnold ◦ A return to Bitter Wind Blown, but with determination to do something about it

Brighter Than Today by Raymond Arnold ◦ Our central anthem of hope, starting from the invention of fire

Here Comes the Sun by The Beatles ◦ A light-hearted celebration of the sun
The Sun Is A Miasma of Incandescent Plasma, Shortened by They Might Be Giants and Raymond Arnold ◦ An truly modern ode to the sun
Level Up by Vienna Teng ◦ An insistant yet triumphant invitation to grow
The Mary Ellen Carter by Stan Rogers ◦ A folk song of determination and recovery

The Sun Is An Ember by Scott Alexander and They Might be Giants ◦ A futuristic ode to the sun
Five Thousand Years by Raymond Arnold ◦ Looking to the far future