Rhythm’s Children opens with a sunrise over a quiet canyon. A narrow river feeds tough green plants and animals call to one another in the half-light. We see people on a wide, fertile plain, moving together in a gentle, simple dance.
Their hearts beat with a universal rhythm. The rhythm carries them into the future. The earth nourishes them and carries their dancing feet with love. The earth watches in terror as the dancing feet move faster and faster, trampling the plants on the plain and kicking dust into the once-clear river.
We see a modern city like New York. We see a child in the city, and hear a voice that she hears, a wild whisper in her ear. It asks her to feel the rhythm that connects her to the ancient world, to look at the problems of the modern world with clear eyes, and to realize that we can solve the problems facing us if we remember the past, understand the present and believe in our power to shape the future.
On Rhythm’s Children, cinematic instrumentals paint the red desert and green grassland. Synthesizers dance and play with laughing piano licks. Lively percussion leaps under bright vocal choruses. Rhythm’s Children is the second track on Shine by Noah Blumenfeld.
Rhythm’s Children
Child of the canyon Of naked stone and silver river You were born on a sandy shore A desert wind caressed your skin You bathed in water that flows from a fountain And carves a path across the fertile plain Sew seeds in springtime Harvest when seasons change The rhythm's old The rhythm's new A heartbeat drumming in all you do The rhythm's strong Its power's true It's living in me It's living in you Rhythm's children Rhythm's children Rhythm's children We're rhythm's children Child of the past and future Child of heaven and earth Child of sorrow, child of hope A bitter wind bites at your bare skin Stand in shadows of tall buildings Look upon our world with gentle eyes Cry for the moment that we live in Give our world your love and delight The rhythm's old The rhythm's new A heartbeat dancing in all we do The rhythm's strong Its power's true It's living in me It's living in you Rhythm's children Rhythm's children Rhythm's children We're rhythm's children The rhythm's old The rhythm's new A heartbeat playing in all we do The rhythm's strong Its power's true It's living in me It's living in you Rhythm's children Rhythm's children Rhythm's children We're rhythm's children
