Shine Over Babylon

Album: Detours (2008)
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  • I walked the heat of seven hills
    Endless talk of losing wills
    Great highways in a constant melt
    Men and women and children all have overbuilt

    Buying bread and paying for none
    Creatures of a waning sun
    Teacher's hands are overrun
    Clowns and gypsies all but gone

    [Chorus]
    (You make me wanna)
    Shine over Babylon
    (You make me wanna)
    Shine over Babylon

    Freedoms etched on Sacred pillars
    Hollow stones of mindless filler
    Can lead to madman oil drillers
    Won't be long before we all are killers

    Little boy lost way up the mountains
    Cities drowning under boiling fountains
    I dreamed of chilly, sunlit days
    I was trembling in a golden haze

    [Chorus]

    We celebrate the golden cow
    Praise the bloated bank account
    If there's a God where is he now
    The precipice is slipping further out

    Sanskrit message from the mounts
    Leave your possession, hope abounds
    There's nothing here for you to cry about
    We're all just followers from here on out

    I take the stage, I walk the planks
    I sing these songs with little thanks
    I wait for shouts from crazy cranks
    I stand amidst the brown shirt ranks

    I found my way to Alexandria
    Where gurus bubble up on ganga
    Scavengers, they run up and hand ya
    All the junk that should have damned ya

    [Chorus]

    If everything in life was free
    You'd float in your own reverie
    The things that you could never see
    Seal the gap between you and me

    [Chorus: x2] Writer/s: BILL BOTTRELL, BRIAN S. MACLEOD, ERIC N SCHERMERHORN, SHERYL CROW
    Publisher: CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Downtown Music Publishing, Reservoir Media Management, Inc., Wixen Music Publishing
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Mark from Worcester, MiThis once fun loving and outstanding performer is, IMO, all caught up in herself and feeling just a bit self important.
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