Light one candle for the Maccabees' children   With thanks that their light didn't die   Light one candle for the pain they endured   When their right to exist was denied      Light one candle for the terrible sacrifice   Justice and freedom demand   But light one candle for the wisdom to know   When the peacemaker's time is at hand      Don't let the light go out   It's lasted for so many years   Don't let the light go out   Let it shine through our love and our tears      Light one candle for the strength that we need   To never become our own foe   And light one candle for those who are suffering   Pain we learned so long ago      Light one candle for all we believe in   That anger not tear us apart   And light one candle to find us together   With peace as the song in our hearts      Don't let the light go out   It's lasted for so many years   Don't let the light go out   Let it shine through our love and our tears      Don't let the light go out   It's lasted for so many years   Don't let the light go out   Let it shine through our love and our tears      What is the memory that's valued so highly   That we keep it alive in that flame?   What's the commitment to those who died   That we cry out they've not died in vain?      We have come this far always believing   That justice would somehow prevail   This is the burden, this is the promise   This is why we will not fail      Don't let the light go out   It's lasted for so many years   Don't let the light go out   Let it shine through our love and our tears      Don't let the light go out   It's lasted for so many years   Don't let the light go out   Let it shine through our love and our tears      Don't let the light go out   Don't let the light go out   Don't let the light go out