The Whole World Is Waiting

The Whole World is Waiting was originally written by Kate Hurley in 2008.

It was born from a collaboration with some folks those of us in the band really love and admire: Flamy Grant, Ben Grace (of The Calendar Years), and the original writer herself, Kate Hurley.

From the first line to the last, it gives us a way to sing about the realities we are living at this moment. When so much is heartbreaking around us - devastating war, climate crises, political upheaval, hatred, exclusion and division -  this is a song we can sing honestly.

It's also a song that assures us there is a God that hears the “cries for justice and the longing to be free.” Who “heals and shows us what can be.” And it reminds us once again that love can change things - something that's often so hard to believe.

Find the lyric video HERE.

The Lyrics

The Whole World is Waiting
as recorded by The Many with Flamy Grant, Kate Hurley, & The Calendar Years

Music 2008 Kate Hurley. New Lyrics 2023 Kate Hurley-Krause and Lenora Rand.
Admin by Plural Guild Music. One License #265086 CCLI #7229442

The whole world is waiting
The whole world cries
The whole world is waiting
For the dawn to rise
Like you sweet Jesus
Our hope is born tonight
The whole world is waiting
The whole world cries

We hear the cries for justice 
and the longing to be free.  
You are the one who heals and 
who shows us what can be
We believe our love can change things
We will not live silently
We hear the cries for justice 
and the longing to be free.  

The power of love is with us. 
When we are afraid
Though trouble may surround us
and we can’t find our way
Your love shines like a candle
We will hold it close and say
The power of love is with us
When we are afraid.