"I can hear the sound of the music. I can hear the rhythm of life. I can hear the voice of creation. I can hear the song of life." Mark Hayes's vibrant affirmation of the joys of living includes a positively charged text and a driving compound-duple feeling of forward motion. It incorporates brief moments of easy divisi and independent part singing, and the middle section features a contrasting chorale-like setting of an adaptation of Whitman’s "I Hear America Singing."