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- Jubilee
- Mother Rose
- Stride Of The Mind
- Cartwheels
- Gandhi
- Trespasses
- My Blakean Year
- Cash
- Peaceable Kingdom
- Radio Baghdad
- Trampin'
Jubilee
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Oh glad day to celebrate 'neath the cloudless sky
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Air so sweet, water pure, fields ripe with rye
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Come one, come all, gather round, discard your Sunday shoes
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Come on now, oh my land, be a jubilee
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Come on girl, come on boy, be a jubilee
Oh my land, oh my good people don't be shy
Weave the birth of harmony with children's happy cries
Hand-in-hand, we're dancing round in a freedom ring
Come on now, oh my land, be a jubilee
Come on girl, come on boy, be a jubilee
We will never fade away, doves shall multiply
Yet I see hawks circling the sky
Scattering our glad day with debt and despair
What good hour will restore our troubled air?
Come on people, gather round, you know what to do
Come on people, oh my land
What be troubling, oh my land
What be troubling, what be troubling
What be troubling you?
We are love and the future
We stand in the midst of fury and weariness
Who dreams of joy and radiance?
Who dreams of war and sacrifice?
Our sacred realms are being squeezed
Curtailing civil liberties
Recruit the dreams that sing to thee
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Let freedom ring
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Freedom ring
Freedom ring
Jubilee
Oh my land
Oh glad day
Oh my land
Hear our cry
Freedom ring
Oh glad day
Oh my land
Jubilee
Jubilee
Mother Rose
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Mother rose, every little morn to tend to me
There she stood, waiting by the door selflessly
Took my hand, took it with a smile tenderly
Mother rose, every little morn to tend to me
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Now's the time to turn the view
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Now that I have you
And I'll rise, every little morn to tend to thee
When you rise, open up your eyes and you will see
There I'll be, waiting by the door, come to me
Take my hand, look into your heart and there I'll be
Now's the time to turn the view
Now that I have you
Now's the time to turn the view
Now that I have you
Now's the time to turn the view
Now that I have you
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Roses growing by my door
Climbing up the vine
All the thorns and pain obscured
Roses shall divine
Where we feel no pain
And the love inside
Where roses climb
Roses shall divine
Roses shall divine
And feel no pain
And the love inside
Holy, mother, mother of gold
Mother with stories told and retold
She felt our tears, heard our sighs
And turned to gold before our eyes
She rose into the light
She rose into the light
She rose into the light
Stride Of The Mind
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I took a walk out to the sun
But I just, just couldn't take it
I followed a dream, it was circular
But I just, just could not fake it
Step to the left, the left, the left
Step to the right, the right, the right
Pick up the sign, the sign, the sign
For a stride of the mind the mind
Simon of the desert blew into town
On the scalding tail of a bright cold wind
Slipped through the sand, footprints emerged
Where no one was walking, Simon had been
Dropped from heaven to a ready-made world
Said I'm no Sufi but I'll give it a whirl
We booked passage on the Book of the Dead
Time to travel, Simon said
Step to the left, the left, the left
Step to the right, the right, the right
Pick up the sign, the sign, the sign
On the stride of the mind the mind the mind
Come on move where dreams increase
Where every man is a masterpiece
If you want to be counted as another kind
And you're true, pursue
Stride of the mind, the mind, the mind
Stride of the mind, the mind, the mind
Stride of the mind, the mind, the mind
Stride of the mind, the mind, the mind
He bowed three times, removed his fez
Pointed to heaven and Simon says
The mind, the mind, the mind
Pick up the sign, the mind, the mind
It's a vertical climb, the climb, the climb
Stride of the mind, the mind, the mind
Pick up the sign, the sign, the sign
It's a vertical climb, the climb, the climb
Take it in stride
(Would you do it?)
Cartwheels
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Come my one, look at the world
Bird, beast, butterfly
Girls sing notes of heaven
Birds lift them up to the sky
Spring is departing
Spring is departing
Her thoughts are darting, like a rabbit
Like a rabbit 'cross the moon
Shines of light over your hair
As boys croon
Pretty in pink, it makes me wonder
What could ever bring you down
I see tears falling
From those eyes of brown
Hearing a voice, you turn your head
You vanish into the mist
Of your thoughts
And I
Want to grasp
What brings you down
Open up those eyes of brown
The world is changing
Your heart is growing
Hearing a voice, you turn your head
Girls turn by ones, by twos
Notes pour, bad and tender
Eradicate your blues
The good world
The good world
Come my one, look around you
Bird, beast, butterfly
Girls sing notes from heaven
Birds lift them up to the sky
I see
Brown eyes
That see
Girls turning
Girls turning
Cartwheels
The good world
The good whirl
The good world
The good whirl
Come my one, look at your world
Don't let it bring you down
Come on, open for me
Those eyes of brown
I see
Girls turning
Cartwheels
Cartwheels
Cartwheels
Gandhi
I had a dream Mr King, if you'll beg my pardon
I was trespassing a sacred garden
And the blossoms fell and they dropped like candy
And nature cried, "Gandhi, Gandhi"
And nature cried, "Gandhi, Gandhi"
When he was a boy he was afraid of the dark
His mother would fast and pray at his feet
And the lamp burned as he slept, slept as he dreamed
He was dreaming of his sisters, dressed in white muslin
Dressed in white muslin, dancing in a ring
He was afraid of the dark and the lamp burned
And his mother fasted and prayed as he slept
Dreaming of blossoms, they were burning his throat
He had eaten the flowers
Fell burning, flowers fell burning from the young girls' hair
He was whispering into his god's ear
Let the children be so! Let the children be so!
And the lamplight flickered, flickered
And his mother withered like Job
And he lay there dreaming and the blossoms fell
And Tilak's trumpet proceeded to call
And the blossoms fell and they dropped like candy
And the people cried, "Gandhi, Gandhi"
I had a dream Mr King, if you'll beg my pardon
I was trespassing the sacred garden
And the blossoms fell, well, they dropped like candy
And nature cried, "Gandhi, Gandhi"
Hey little man, awake from your slumber
Get 'em with the numbers
Get 'em with the numbers
He was frail and shy
And the cast of his mind was mercurial, was mercurial
As the sacred verbs scrawled in the dust
In the dust on the floor, on the floor
Long live revolution
And the spinning wheel
And a handful of salt, and a handful of salt
The untouchables dropped like candy
They called to him, "Gandhi Gandhi"
The children of god with hands full of candy
They called to him, "Gandhi, Gandhi, feel our woes"
Man of the giving, rejoin the living, rejoin the living
Awake from the net where you've been sleeping
And climbing, climbing the burning hair
And the golden flowers from the young girls
Well they dropped all around, they dropped like candy
And people cried, "Gandhi, Gandhi"
Awake little man, awake from your slumber
And get 'em with the numbers
Get 'em with the numbers
One, two, three, four
Hundred, thousand million
People, people, people, people
Awake from your slumber
Awake from your slumber
Awake from your slumber
And get 'em with the numbers
Get 'em with the numbers
Long live revolution and the spinning wheel
Awake, awake, is the mighty appeal
Oh, people awake, awake from your slumber
And get 'em with the numbers
Get 'em with the numbers
I had a dream Mr King, if you'll beg my pardon
I was trespassing the sacred garden
And the blossoms fell, dropped like candy
And nature called, "Gandhi, Gandhi, Gandhi, Gandhi"
Awake from your slumber
Awake from your slumber
And get 'em with the numbers
Get 'em with the numbers
Trespasses
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Life is designed
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With unfinished lines
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That another sings
Each story unfolds
Like it was gold
Upon a ragged wing
The bold and the fair
Suffer their share
He whispered to his kin
All of my debts
Left with regrets
I'm sorry for everything
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Trespasses stretch like broken fences
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Winding as they may
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Trespasses stretch like broken fences
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Hope to mend them one day
And she pinned back her hair
Shouldered with care
The burdens that were his
Mending the coat
That hung on the post
In heart remembering
Trespasses stretch like broken fences
Winding as they may
Trespasses stretch like broken fences
Hope to mend them one day
And her time was to come
Called to her son
This your song to sing
All of our debts
Wove with regrets
Upon a golden string
And he found the old coat
Hung on a post
Like a ragged wing
And took as his own
The sewn and unsewn
Joyfully whistling
My Blakean Year
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In my Blakean year, I was so disposed
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Toward a mission yet unclear, advancing pole by pole
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Fortune breathed into my ear mouthed a simple ode
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One road is paved in gold, one road is just a road
In my Blakean year, such a woeful schism
The pain of our existence, was not as I envisioned
Boots that trudged from track to track, worn down to the sole
One road is paved in gold, one road is just a road
In my Blakean year, temptation but a hiss
Just a shallow spear, robed in cowardice
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Brace yourself for bitter flack, for a life sublime
A labyrinth of riches, never shall unwind
The threads that bind the pilgrim's sack, are stitched into the Blakean back
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So throw off your stupid cloak, embrace all that you fear
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For joy shall conquer all despair in my Blakean year
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So throw off your stupid cloak, embrace all that you fear
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For joy shall conquer all despair in my Blakean year
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Mercy hath a human heart
Pity, a human face
Love, a human form divine
Peace, a human dress
To mercy, pity, peace and love
All pray in their distress
But mercy shall embrace
Mercy shall embrace
Mercy shall embrace
Cash
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Here we go around again, curve of life spiraling
Everything we've ever known, as the seed of life gets blown
And the miracle of time when will that time just end
Remember, you decide, take that vow
Grab that ring, it's not a whim
Not a whim, when you be cashing in
Try to turn your life around and all the things you do resound
And then you can't lose control, say your time has come and then
Hard to pinpoint find the seam where that one time ends
Where that time begins, remember, you decide
Take that vow, take a stand
Grab that ring, it's not a whim, it's not a whim
It's only time that you're cashing in
In the white noise of desire we can't hear a single thing
Floating round the fragile bough
Afflictions of the human soul
Its beauty immaterial
You decide, stand along
The fallen ones take revenge
Defeated sons rend that coat
From seam to seam, it's only time
It's only time that you spend, you spend
It's only time you spend
It's only time you spend
It's only life that you're cashing in
Peaceable Kingdom
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Yesterday I saw you standing there
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With your hand against the pane
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Looking out the window
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At the rain
And I wanted to tell you
That your tears were not in vain
But I guess we both knew
We'd never be the same
Never be the same
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Why must we hide all
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These feelings inside?
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Lions and lambs shall abide
Maybe one day we'll be strong enough
To build it back again
Build the peaceable kingdom
Back again
Build it back again
Why must we hide all
These feelings inside?
Lions and lambs shall abide
Maybe one day we'll be strong enough
To build it back again
Build the peaceable kingdom
Back again
Maybe one day we'll be strong enough
To build it back again
Build the peaceable kingdom
Build it back again
Build the peaceable kingdom
Build it back again
Radio Baghdad
Suffer not your neighbor's affliction
Suffer not your neighbor's paralysis
But extend your hand, extend your hand
Lest you vanish in the city and be but a trace
Just a vanished ghost and your legacy
All the things you knew: science, mathematics, thought
Severely weakened like irrigation systems
In the tired veins forming from the Tigris and Euphrates
In the realm of peace all the world revolved
All the world revolved around a perfect circle
City of Baghdad, city of scholars
Empirical, humble center of the world
City in ashes, city of Baghdad
City of Baghdad, abrasive, aloof
Oh, in Mesopotamia aloofness ran deep
Deep in the veins of the great rivers
That form the base of Eden
And the tree, the tree of knowledge
Held up its arms to the sky
All the branches of knowledge, all the branches of knowledge
Cradling, cradling civilization in the realm of peace
All the world revolved around a perfect circle
Oh Baghdad, center of the world, city of ashes
With its great mosques erupting from the mouth of god
Rising from the ashes like a speckled bird
Splayed against the mosaic sky
Oh, clouds around her know!
We created the zero but we mean nothing to you
You would believe that we are just some mystical tale
We are just a swollen belly that gave birth to Sinbad, Scheherazade
We gave birth, oh, oh, to the zero, the perfect number
We invented the zero and we mean nothing to you
Our children run through the streets
And you sent your flames, your shooting stars
Shock and awe, shock and awe!
Like some, some imagined warrior production
Twenty-first century
No chivalry involved, no Bushido
Oh, the code of the West long gone
Never been, where does it lie?
You came, you came through the west
Annihilated a people and you come to us
But we are older than you
You come, you wanna, you wanna come
And rob the cradle of civilization
And you read, yet you read, you read Genesis
You read of the tree, you read of the tree Beget by god
That raised its branches into the sky
Every branch of knowledge
At the cradle of civilization
On the banks of the Tigris and the Euphrates
Oh, in Mesopotamia aloofness ran deep
The face of Eve turning
What sky did she see?
What garden beneath her feet?
The one you drill, you drill, pulling the blood of the earth
Little droplets of oil for bracelets, little jewels, sapphires
You make bracelets round your own world
We are weeping tears, rubies, We offer them to you
We are just your Arabian nightmare
We invented the zero But we mean nothing to you
Your Arabian nightmare
City of stars, city of scholarship, science
City of ideas, city of light
City, city of ashes
That the great Caliph walked through
His naked feet formed a circle
And they built a city, a perfect city of Baghdad
In the realm of peace
And all the world revolved
And they invented
And they mean nothing to you, nothing to you, nothing
Go to sleep, go to sleep my child
Go to sleep and I'll sing you a lullaby
A lullaby for our city, a lullaby of Baghdad
Go to sleep, sleep my child
Sleep, sleep... Run, run...
You sent your lights, your bombs
You sent them down on our city
Shock and awe!
Like some crazy TV show
They're robbing the cradle of civilization
They're robbing the cradle of civilization
They're robbing the cradle of civilization
Suffer not the paralysis of your neighbor
Suffer not, but extend your hand
Trampin'
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I'm trampin', trampin', tryin' to make heaven my home
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I'm trampin', trampin', tryin' to make heaven my home
I've never been to heaven but I've been told
Tryin' to make heaven my home
That the streets up there are paved with gold
Tryin' to make heaven my home
I'm trampin', trampin', tryin' to make heaven my home
I'm trampin', trampin', tryin' to make heaven my home