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i) Star Gazing

Looking at the night sky shining, far away
I wonder whether we will ever get there some day?
Some day? (Some day).

When we took our footsteps on the Moon,
Were we there just in time or much too soon?
Too Soon? (Much too soon).

Are we all a part of some great Universal plan,
The great escape of the monkey into Man?
Into Man?  (Into a man).

And if we are to make some journey into Space,
Should we not first learn to love the human race?
The human race? (The human race)

ii) For Example…

A prime example of the efforts of Man,
Took more than 40 years to make me who I am,
Less chance of changing now than making the grave
Born into hopefulness and ending up a slave to…
Money (makes the World go round),
Money (buys me things),
Money (for down payment from the wages of sin)
(The human race!)

Don’t you cross my boundaries, stay just where you are
You might want my property, you might steal my car
And I will protect it with all that am,
The powerful motive of the consumer man
(The human race!)

I see what I want and what want, I take from you!
The doctrine in my ancient books tells me that I’m true,
Only following the words that I learned from youth
Where’s the hate?
Stop the World it’s getting much too late!

Black, white, yellow or red, we sow the sacred ground with our dead,
True blue, Muslim, Jew - all the faithful victims are bred,
I’m only following the writing on the wall,
Overall, when did we become so pitifully small?

iii) At the end of my rope

And is this all that we can be?
What will it take to set us free?
Can we be called to testify?
Will we see it before we die?
Pull on the rope and let him swing
He’s proved he just can’t learn a thing
Wash down the guilty, clean the slate
The red reminder came too late
You can’t have it all served up on a plate

iv) Man Of God

And from the East they came,
And from the Southern plains,
All along the man made borders.
Bringing northern lights, to light up the scar filled night
They had no faith, just followed orders

Man of God, where are you now?
I’m calling through time and space

No man takes my island,
The castaway said,
Those that tried died or fled.
Look into horizons,
Where colours are melting the snow,
We lost our path - got no where to go! 

Man of God, where are you now?
I’m calling through time and space

And from the East they came
And from the Southern plains
With no faith, just following orders...tonight...

 

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