This is another Trisha Watts from the Willow archives. It goes back to 1981 and has lyrics by Monica McInerney (before she was O’Brien) and Trisha Watts with music by Trisha Watts.
The lyrics are somehow completely Christian without mentioning Christ, in the aspiration for a world of the Kingdom. It was from a collection, “Prophets of Hope”. You can purchase the sheet music at Willow.
The tune is typically inventive and certainly worth a listen. I could find no version on the internet to listen to but made my own backing nonetheless:
1 Can there be a world of love where we can be together?
Can there be a world out there where unity links arms in love?
Can there be a place for you and me to hold hands freely?
Can there be a world of love?
2 Can there be a world out there beauty’s seen in poverty?
Can there be the eyes to see the richness in equality?
Can there be a place liberty, a home of freedom?
Can there be a world of love?
Chorus
I know there’s hope within our lives,
A hope beyond our eyes, calling all to journey on.
I know there’s truth within this song, in truth I can belong,
Reaching out to the world in love.
3 Can there be a world out there where we are no longer afraid?
Can there be a tender heart cradled in a hidden view?
Can there be a friend of faithfulness, a gentle me?
Can there be a world of love?
Chorus
© 1981 Trisha Watts and Monica McInerney