WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.450 align:middle line:90% 00:00:03.450 --> 00:00:08.550 align:middle line:90% The woman you love is singing. 00:00:08.550 --> 00:00:13.460 align:middle line:90% Quick, tell her what you love. 00:00:13.460 --> 00:00:16.460 align:middle line:90% Don't tell her what you believe. 00:00:16.460 --> 00:00:20.840 align:middle line:84% Don't tell her if God is dead or alive. 00:00:20.840 --> 00:00:23.450 align:middle line:84% Don't tell her what's wrong with the world 00:00:23.450 --> 00:00:26.900 align:middle line:90% and how to fix everyone in it. 00:00:26.900 --> 00:00:29.960 align:middle line:90% The woman you love is singing. 00:00:29.960 --> 00:00:35.930 align:middle line:84% Her voice is laying a table in the presence of death. 00:00:35.930 --> 00:00:42.110 align:middle line:84% The service shines irradiating the cardinal points, 00:00:42.110 --> 00:00:47.030 align:middle line:84% establishing the above and the below. 00:00:47.030 --> 00:00:55.130 align:middle line:84% You are awake inside a larger sleep, inside a greater waking. 00:00:55.130 --> 00:01:00.560 align:middle line:84% Even as the bell of this hour she rings out 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:06.410 align:middle line:84% is rung within a larger silence, which itself 00:01:06.410 --> 00:01:12.810 align:middle line:84% is trough to the crest of a greater ringing at whose 00:01:12.810 --> 00:01:20.220 align:middle line:84% audible limit begins yet another deeper silence born 00:01:20.220 --> 00:01:26.700 align:middle line:84% into audience by one speaking those founding words, 00:01:26.700 --> 00:01:29.220 align:middle line:90% I love you. 00:01:29.220 --> 00:01:33.090 align:middle line:84% Now is not the time to quote scriptures or repeat 00:01:33.090 --> 00:01:35.370 align:middle line:90% manifestos. 00:01:35.370 --> 00:01:39.780 align:middle line:84% The woman you love is alive and singing, 00:01:39.780 --> 00:01:46.320 align:middle line:84% making a new world out of all she loves and all she loved. 00:01:46.320 --> 00:01:49.500 align:middle line:90% Don't remain outside her song. 00:01:49.500 --> 00:01:55.170 align:middle line:84% Whatever enters her singing lives again, twice born. 00:01:55.170 --> 00:01:58.500 align:middle line:90% And there's only one way in. 00:01:58.500 --> 00:02:01.440 align:middle line:90% Speak your love clearly. 00:02:01.440 --> 00:02:03.480 align:middle line:90% Live again. 00:02:03.480 --> 00:02:06.660 align:middle line:84% So what if no one else can hear her? 00:02:06.660 --> 00:02:11.670 align:middle line:84% So what if no one else witnesses her making and remaking 00:02:11.670 --> 00:02:16.680 align:middle line:84% the world in the image of her love? 00:02:16.680 --> 00:02:23.040 align:middle line:84% Soon, her singing will stop, and all you'll hear 00:02:23.040 --> 00:02:29.340 align:middle line:84% is the violence of a world untouched by her song. 00:02:29.340 --> 00:02:35.990 align:middle line:84% Remaining outside of her singing has cost you so much. 00:02:35.990 --> 00:02:39.080 align:middle line:90% Quick, tell her what you love. 00:02:39.080 --> 00:02:41.780 align:middle line:90% 00:02:41.780 --> 00:02:42.980 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:02:42.980 --> 00:02:44.830 align:middle line:90% Thank you.