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Patti Smith : Dream Of Life
1988

  1. People Have The Power
  2. Going Under
  3. Up There Down There
  4. Paths That Cross

  5. Dream Of Life
  6. Where Duty Calls
  7. Looking For You (I Was)
  8. The Jackson Song

  9. As The Night Goes By (Bonus)
  10. Wild Leaves (Bonus)

People Have The Power

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I was dreaming in my dreaming Of an aspect bright and fair And my sleeping it was broken But my dream it lingered near
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In the form of shining valleys Where the pure air recognized And my senses newly opened I awakened to the cry
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That the people have the power
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To redeem the work of fools
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Upon the meek, the graces shower
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It's decreed: the people rule
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People have the power
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People have the power
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People have the power
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Vengeful aspects became suspect And bending low as if to hear And the armies ceased advancing Because the people had their ear And the shepherds and the soldiers Lay beneath the stars Exchanging visions and laying arms To waste in the dust In the form of shining valleys Where the pure air recognized And my senses newly opened I awakened to the cry The people have the power The people have the power The people have the power The people have the power Where there were deserts, I saw fountains Like cream the waters rise And we strolled there together With none to laugh or criticize And the leopard and the lamb Lay together truly bound I was hoping in my hoping To recall what I had found I was dreaming in my dreaming God knows a purer view As I surrender to my sleeping I commit my dream to you The people have the power The people have the power The people have the power The people have the power
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The power to dream, to rule
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To wrestle the world from fools
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It's decreed: the people rule
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It's decreed: the people rule Listen! I believe everything we dream Can come to pass through our union We can turn the world around We can turn the earth's revolution We have the power People have the power ...

Going Under

Sun is rising on the water Light is dancing again Let's go under where the sun beams Let's go under my friend Are we sleeping Are we dreaming Are we dancing again Is it heaven? Crack it open And we'll slide down its stream We can hold on (I'm sure) To the sea's foaming mane It will serve us We'll surface and we'll plunge back again Sun is rising on the water Light is dancing like a flame There's no burning where the sun beams Oh it's such a lovely game Does the sea dream (I'm sure) We are here, we attend We are bells on the shore Where the tolling suspends Who will decide the shape of things The shift of being Who will perceive When life is new Shall we divide and become another Who is due for gift upon gift Who will decide Shall we swim over and over The curve of a wing Its destination ever changing Sun is rising on the water Light is dancing like a flame Let's go waltzing on the water Let's go under again Let's go under Going under

Up There Down There

Up there There's a ball of fire Some call it the spirit Some call it the sun Its energies are not for hire It serves man / It serves everyone Down there where Jonah wails In the healing water In the ready depths Twisting like silver swans No line of death no boundaries Up there The eye is hollow / The eye is winking The winds ablaze / Angels howling The sphinx awakens / But what can she say You'd be amazed Down there Your days are numbers Nothing to fear There will be trumpets There will be silence In the end the end Will be here just here Ah, the borders of heaven Are zipped up tight tonight The abstract streets The lights like some switched on Mondrian Cats like us are obsolete Hey Man don't breathe on my feet Thieves, poets we're inside out And everybody's a soldier Angels howl at those abstract lights And the borders of heaven Are zipped up tight tonight Up there There's a ball of fire Some call it the spirit Some call it the sun Its energies are not for hire It serves man / It serves everyone The air we breathe The flame of wisdom The earth we grind The beckoning sea It's no mystery / Not sentimental Ah, the equation / It's all elemental The world is restless Heaven in flux / Angels appear From the bright storm Out of the shadows Up there, down there But what can we say Man's been forewarned All communion is not holy Even those that fall They can prophet understanding It's all for man / It's for everyone It's up there, down there Everywhere / Everywhere Time for communion / Time for communion Talking communion ...

Paths That Cross

Speak to me Speak to me heart I feel a needing To bridge the clouds Softly go A way I wish to know A way I wish to know Oh you'll ride Surely dance In a ring Backwards and forwards Those who seek Feel the glow A glow we will all know A glow we will all know On that day Filled with grace And the heart's communion Steps we take Steps we trace Into the light of reunion Paths that cross will cross again Paths that cross will cross again Speak to me Speak to me shadow I spin from the wheel nothing at all Save the need, the need to weave A silk of souls that whisper, whisper A silk of souls that whispers to me Speak to me heart All things renew Hearts will mend round the bend Paths that cross, cross again Paths that cross will cross again Rise up hold the reins We'll meet again I don't know when Hold tight bye bye Paths that cross will cross again Paths that cross Will cross again

Dream Of Life

Na-na-na-na-na Na-na-na-na-na I'm with you always You're ever on my mind In a light to last a whole life through Each way I turn The sense of you surrounds In every step I take In all I do Your thoughts your schemes Captivate my dreams Everlasting, ever new Sea returns to sea And sky to sky In a life of dream am I When I'm with you Deep in my heart How the presence of you shines In a light to last a whole life through I recall the wonder of it all Each dream of life I'll share with you Sea returns to sea And sky to sky In a life of dream am I When I'm with you I'm with you always You're ever on my mind In a light to last a whole life through The hand above Turns those leaves of love All and all a timeless view Each dream of life Flung from paradise Everlasting, ever new Dream of Life Dream Of Life Na na na na na

Where Duty Calls

In a room in Lebanon they silently slept They were dreaming crazy dreams in a foreign alphabet Lucky young boys cross on the main The driver was approaching the American zone The waving of hands, the tiniest train They never dreamed they'd never wake again Voice of the swarm We follow, we fall Some kneel for priests Some wail at walls Flag on a match head God or the law And they'll all go together Where duty calls United children, child of Iran Parallel prayers, baseball, Koran I'll protect Mama, I'll lie awake I'll die for Allah in a holy war I'll be a ranger, I'll guard the streams I'll be a soldier, a sleeping Marine Voice of the swarm We follow, we fall Some kneel for priests Some wail at walls Flag on a match head God or the law And they'll all go together Where duty calls In the heart of the ancient, Ali smiles In the soul of the desert, the sun blooms Awake into the glare of all our little wars Who pray to return to salute The coming and dying of the moon Oh sleeping sun Assassin in prayer, laid a compass deep Exploding dawn and himself as well Their eyes for his eyes, their breath for his breath All to his end, and a room in Lebanon Dust of scenes, erase and blend May the blanket of Kings cover them and him Voice of the swarm We follow, we fall Some kneel for priests Some wail at walls Flag on a match head God or the law And they'll all go together Where duty calls Forgive them Father, they know not what they do From the vast portals of their consciousness They're calling to you

Looking For You (I Was)

In the medieval night 'twas love's design And the sky was open like a Valentine All the lacy lights where wishes fall And like Shakespeare's child I wished on them all Ah, to be your destiny, was all that I pursued I could see the sights from the lofty heights But my heart obscured the view I was looking for you (looking for you) Looking for you (looking for you) What could I do? I was looking for you Along the black river the ambassador jewel And you were reflected in all that I saw In the tower of gold, in the wheel and the wing Gripping my senses like an ancient claim Many is the time I knelt in the light Appealing to all that I know Guide my eyes and steps that I may find love true I was looking for you (looking for you) Looking for you (looking for you) What could I do? I was looking for you Come on darlin', all that hearts desire Was written before us in the medieval fire It was love's design in the glittering stars Like Shakespeare's child to be where you are I was looking for you (looking for you) Looking for you (looking for you) What could I do? I was looking for you From the Portobello Road to the Port of Marseilles Where the dervish turns, where the wild goats play I was looking for you (looking for you) Looking for you (looking for you) What could I do? I was looking for you

The Jackson Song

Little blue dreamer go to sleep Let's close our eyes and call the deep Slumbering land that just begins When day is done and little dreamers spin First take my hand now let it go Little blue boy you're on your own Little blue wings as those feet fly Little blue shoes that walk across the sky May your path be your own But I'm with you And each day you'll grow He'll be there too And someday when you go We'll follow you As you go, as you go Little blue star that offers light Little blue bird that offers flight Little blue path where those feet fall Little blue dreamer won't you dream it all Refrain And in your travels you will see Warrior wings remember Daddy And if a mama bird you see Folding her wings will you remember me As you go, as you go As you go, as you go

As The Night Goes By (Bonus)

Darlin' come under cover Another night to discover Let's slip where senses gather Let's drift between the sea and sky As the night goes by Sands shift Orchids so strange In the moonlight Brushing our faces Places where love blooms And dies While the night goes by Oh, and the spirits call Sun upon your shadows fall Tracing every breath we draw Come into my dreams Come into my dreams Darlin' let's go where the night goes Let's drift where senses gather Let's make this night last forever Into my dreams Into my dreams Darlin' let's go Where the night goes Time slips Oh darlin' how it flies When the night goes by All through the night Sirens call Come to me I'll come to you As the night softly Goes by bye Midnight Moon on our shoulder Daybreak Another one older Darlin' heavenly blue Glories fade into view Let's go Under the stars That are beating Under the moonlight Stars shoot Dusk just a whisper Make this night Last forever Oh how I wonder Where the night goes Oh Let's wonder Where the night goes As the night goes By bye By Bye

Wild Leaves (Bonus)

Wild leaves are falling Falling to the ground Every leaf a moment A light upon the crown That we'll all be wearing In a time unbound And wild leaves are falling Falling to the ground Every word that's spoken Every word decreed Every spell that's broken Every golden deed All the parts we're playing Binding as the reed And wild leaves are falling Wild wild leaves As the campfire's burning As the fire ignites All the moments turning In the stormy bright Well enough the churning When enough believe The coming and the going Wild wild leaves Wild wild leaves Wild wild leaves