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Patti Smith : Wave
1979

  1. Frederick
  2. Dancing Barefoot
  3. So You Want To Be A Rock And Roll Star?
  4. Hymn
  5. Revenge

  6. Citizen Ship
  7. Seven Ways Of Going
  8. Broken Flag
  9. Wave

Frederick

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| ... Hi, hello, wake from thy sleep God has given your soul to keep All of the power that burns in the flame Ignites the light in a single name Frederick, name of care Fast asleep in a room somewhere Guardian angels lay in bed Shed their light on my sleepy head I am a threshold yearning to sing Down with the dancers having one last fling Here's to the moment when you said hello Come on my spirit are you ready let's go Hi-hi, hey-hey Maybe I will come back some day now But tonight on the wings of a dove Up above to the land of love
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| Now I lay me down to sleep Pray the Lord my soul to keep Kiss to kiss, breath to breath My soul surrenders astonished to death Night of wonder for us to keep Set our sails, channel the deep After the rapture two hearts meet Their minds entwined in a single beat Frederick you're the one As we journey from sun to sun All the dreams I waited so long for Fly tonight, so long, so long Bye-bye, hey-hey Maybe we will come back some day now But tonight on the wings of a dove Up above to the land of love Frederick name of care High above in sky that's clear All the things I've been dreamin' of Are expressed in this name of love

Dancing Barefoot

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She is benediction She is addicted to me She is the root connection She is connecting with me Here I go and I don't know why I float so ceaselessly Could it be she's taking over me?
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I'm dancing barefoot
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Heading for a spin
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Some strange music draws me in
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Makes me come on like some heroine She is sublimation She is the essence of thee She is concentrating on He, the chosen of she Here I go and I don't know why I float so ceaselessly Could it be he's taking over me? I'm dancing barefoot Heading for a spin Some strange music draws me in Makes me come on like some heroine
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She is re-creation She, intoxicated by thee She has the slow sensation that He is levitating with she Here I go and I don't know why I spin so ceaselessly Till I lose my sense of gravity I'm dancing barefoot Heading for a spin Some strange music draws me in Makes me come on like some heroine |
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Oh god, I fell for you Oh god, I fell for you Oh god, I fell for you ....
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The plot of our life sweats in the dark like a face The mystery of childbirth, of childhood itself Grave visitations What is it that calls to us? Why must we pray screaming? Why must not death be redefined? We shut our eyes, we stretch out our arms And whirl on a pane of glass An afixiation, a fix on anything The line of life, the limb of a tree The hands of he and the promise that she Is blessed among women

So You Want To Be A Rock And Roll Star?

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So you want to be a rock and roll star? Then listen now to what I say Just get an electric guitar Then take some time and learn how to play
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It's gonna be all right Then it's time to go downtown Where the agent man won't let you down Sell your soul to the company Who are waiting there to sell plastic-ware And in a week or two If you make the charts The girls 'll tear you apart |
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What would you pay for your riches and fame Well it's all a vicious game, you're a little insane The money that came and the public acclaim Don't forget what you are, you're a rock and roll star Na, na-na na-na na Na-na na-na na na Na na na

Hymn

When I am troubled in the night He comes to comfort me He wills me through the darkness And the empty child is free To take his hand, his sacred heart The heart that breaks the dawn, amen And when I think I've had my fill He fills up again

Revenge

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I feel upset, let's do some celebrating Come on honey, don't hesitate now Needed you, you withdrew, I was so forsaken Ah, but now the tables have turned, my move I believe I'll be taking my revenge Sweet revenge I thought you were some perfect read-out Some digital delay Had obscured and phased my view Of the wicked hand you played Ah, the sands and hands of time have run out, run out Ah you better face it Ah, this thing's run amok, this luck I do know how to replace it with revenge Oh, sweet revenge |
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I gave you a wristwatch, baby You wouldn't even give me the time of day You want to know what makes me tick Now it's me that's got precious little to say For the ghosts of our love have dried have died There's no use faking it Ah, the spirits gonna close in on you tonight High time I was taking my revenge Sweet revenge Revenge, Revenge All the gold and silver couldn't measure up my love for you It's so immaterial I don't wait around for you Nobody gets anything Nobody gets nothing No don't leave me no space in your little boat You ain't gonna need No you ain't gonna need no little boat You are living on my time my dear Revenge Sweet revenge Sweet sweet revenge

Citizen Ship

Ah, it was nothing, it didn't matter to me Ah, there were tanks all over my city There was war outside the windows And children in the streets throwing rocks at tanks
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Ain't got a passport, ain't got my real name Ain't got a chance, sport, at fortune and fame And I walk these endless streets, won't you give me a lift A lift, a lift, on your citizen ship They were rioting in Chicago, movement in LA Sixty-eight it broke the Yardbirds, we were broke as well Took it underground, MC borderline, up against the wall The wall, the wall, show your papers, boy
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Citizen ship we got memories Stateless, they got shame Cast adrift from the citizen ship
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Lifeline denied, exiled this castaway Blind alley in New York City, in a foreign embrace If you're hungry you're not too particular about what you'll taste Men in uniform gave me vinegar, spoon of misery But what the hell, I fell, I fell, it doesn't matter to me Citizen ship we got memories Citizen ship, we got pain Cast adrift from the citizen ship Lifeline denied, exiled this castaway
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I was caught like a moth with its wings out of sync Cut the chord, overboard, just a refugee Lady liberty, lend a hand to me, I've been cast adrift Adrift, adrift, adrift, adrift, adrift, adrift On the citizen ship we got memories Citizen ship, we got pain Lose your grip on the citizen ship You're cast, you're cast away On the citizen ship you got memories Citizen ship you got pain Citizen ship you got identity A name, a name, a name, a name What's your name, son? What's your name? What's your name? Nothing, I got nothing Goodbye New Jersey Give me your tired, your poor Give me your huddled masses Your war-torn on your tender seas Give me your war-torn on your shores at dawn Lift up your dawn, your dawn lifts me It's all mythology!

Seven Ways Of Going

I've got seven ways of going, seven wheres to be Seven sweet disguises, seven ways of serving Thee Lord, I do extol Thee, for Thou has lifted me Woke me up and shook me out of mine iniquity Oh, I was undulating in the lewd impostered night Steeped in a dream to rend the seams, redeem the rock of right Swept through the seas of Galilee and the Seven Hills of Rome Seven sins were wrung from the sight of me, Lord I turned my neck toward home I opened up my arms to You and we spun from life to life 'Til you loosened me and let me go toward the everlasting light In this big step I am taking, seven seizures for the true I got seven ways of going, seven ways of serving You As I move through seven levels As I move upon the slate As I declare to you the number of my moves As I speculate the eighth Seeking love without exception A light upon the swarm Seeking love without exception A saint in any form

Broken Flag

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| Nodding though the lamp's lit low Nod for passers underground To and fro she's darning and The land is weeping red and pale
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Weeping yarn from Algiers
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| Weaving though the eyes are pale What will rend will also mend The sifting cloth is binding And the dream she weaves will never end For we're marching toward Algiers For we're marching toward Algiers
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Lullaby though baby's gone Lullaby, a broken song Oh, the cradle was our call When it rocked we carried on And we marched on toward Algiers For we're marching toward Algiers We're still marching for Algiers Marching, marching for Algiers Not to hail a barren sky Sifting cloth is weeping red The mourning veil is waving high A field of stars and tears we've shed In the sky a broken flag Children wave and raise their arms We'll be gone but they'll go on And on and on and on and on |
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Wave

Hi! Hi! I was running after you for a long time I, I was watching you from... Actually I've watched you for a long time I like to watch you when you're walking back and forth on the beach And the way your, the way your cloth looks I like I like to see the edges, the bottom of it Get all wet when you're walking near the water there It's real nice to talk to you I didn't... I-I-I-I-I... How are you? How are you? I saw, I saw you from your balcony window And you were standing there waving at everybody It was really great because there was about a billion people there But when I was waving to you Uh, the way your face was, it was so, the way your face was It made me feel exactly like we're It's not that you were just waving to me But that we were we were waving to each other Really it was really wonderful I really felt happy It really made me happy And, um, I, I just wanted to thank you Because you, you really, you made me feel good And... oh I, it's nothing I um, I, well I'm just clumsy, yeah No, it's just a band-aid No, it's OK Oh no, I'm always, something's always happening to me Yeah, well, I'll be seein' ya Bye, bye Wave thou art pretty Wave thou art high Wave thou art music Wave thou art white (Oh albino) (Oh albino) Wave thou art high (Wave thou art pretty) Wave to the city Wave Goodbye Goodbye sir Goodbye papa