[Verse 1]
From the chaos You composed
A song that all creation knows
You took a mess, and You made life
You said, "Let there be light"
Word of God, God from the start
Recreating human hearts
Make us like the moon at night
A mirror of the light
With just a word set the dark to flight
Sing to the world, "Let there be light!"
O Word of God, let there be light
Cut through the dark
Oh, Let there be light!
Come risen Son in glory bright
Come Word of God
Oh, Let there be light
We're desperate for the break of dawn
To be won by the risen Son
Grace and justice, here collide
To keep us through the night
[Pre-Chorus]
With just a word, set the dark to flight
Sing to the world, "Let there be light!"
O Word of God, let there be light
Cut through the dark
Oh, Let there be light!
Come risen Son in glory bright
Come Word of God
Oh, Let there be light
Sing now, sing into the dark
Sing to lonely hearts
Oh sing, "Let there be light."
Sing out when we see the sun
For our light has come
And the dead have come alive
O Word of God, let there be light
Cut through the dark
Oh, Let there be light!
Come risen Son in glory bright
Come Word of God
Oh, Let there be light (3x)
Let There Be Light
Song Meaning
The City Harmonic opens "Let There Be Light" at creation itself, quoting Genesis directly — "from the chaos You composed a song that all creation knows, You took a mess, and You made life, You said, 'let there be light.'" The same command that ordered the physical universe gets applied to something smaller almost immediately: "recreating human hearts, make us like the moon at night, a mirror of the light."
"We're desperate for the break of dawn, to be won by the risen Son" shifts the song from the first creation to a second one, tying the original spoken light directly to the resurrection rather than treating them as separate events centuries apart. "Grace and justice, here collide, to keep us through the night" holds two ideas that don't always sit easily together, refusing to let one cancel out the other.
"Sing out when we see the sun, for our light has come, and the dead have come alive" closes the song by finally merging the creation language with resurrection language completely, letting the oldest recorded words in Scripture describe the newest hope the song has been building toward.