Emergency On Planet Earth
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When You Gonna LearnToo Young To Die
Hooked Up
If I Like It, I Do It
Music of the Mind
Emergency On Planet Earth
Whatever It Is, I Just Can't Stop
Blow Your Mind
Revolution 1993
Didgin' Out
When You Gonna Learn (3:47)
Yeah, yeahHave you heard the news today ?
People right across the world,
Are pledging they will play the game,
Victims of a modern world,
Circumstance has brought us here,
Armageddon's come too near,
Too, too near now
Foresight is the only key
To save our children's destiny,
The consequences are so grave
So, so grave now
The hypocrites we are their slaves.
So my friends to stop the end
On each other we depend,
Oh we depend.
Mountain high and river deep,
Stop it going on,
We gotta wake this world up from its sleep.
Oh people,
Stop it going on,
Yeah, yeah
Have you heard the news today ?
Money's on the menu in my favourite restaurant,
Well don't talk about quantity,
There's no fish let in the sea.
Greedy men been killing all the life there ever was,
And you'd better play it natures way,
Or she want take it all away,
Don't try and tell me you know more than her about right from wrong,
Now you've upset the balance, man,
done the only thing you can,
Now my life is in your hands,
Mountain high and river deep.
Oh yeah
Stop it going on,
We gotta wake this world up from its sleep.
Oh people,
Stop it going on,
Mountain high and river deep.
Oh yeah
Stop it going on,
We gotta wake this world up from its sleep.
Oh people,
Stop it going on,
Greedy men will fade away,
When we stop it going on,
I know it's got to be that way,
Oh people,
Stop it going on,
I'm asking, Oh
When you gonna learn
To stop it going on?
When you gonna learn
To stop it going on?
When you gonna learn
To stop it going on?
Too Young To Die (6:04)
EverybodyDon't want no war,
'Cos we're too young to die,
So many people,
All around the world now,
Seen their brothers fry.
What's the motive?
In your madness.
You've made my people cry.
So politicians this time
I think you better keep your distance.
'Cos we're too young to die.
You know we're too young to die,
You know we're too young to die,
You know we're too young to die,
You know we're too young to die,
What's the answer? (I wish I knew)
To our problems.
I think we've gone too high,
Little children,
Never said a word now,
But still they have to die
Now I'm asking why
It won't be long.
Dancing like we do now,
to put this sad world right.
So don't you worry,
People we don't have to suffer no more,
'Cos we're too young to die.
You know we're too young to die,
You know we're too young to die,
You know we're too young to die,
You know we're too young to die,
All gone when they drop the bomb.
Can the politicians reassure?
'Cos here I am presuming that
Nobody wants a war
There's so many people praying
Just to find out if they're staying.
But lately stately governments
And disillusioned leaders,
So full of empty promises
But rarely do they feed us.
Put our backs against the wall,
Or don't we count at all.
Can you decide,
Are you mesmerised.
Do you know which side you're standing?
Cos when it falls gonna take us all
Gotta know what we're demanding,
I never lie,
Can't you hear the cry,
Coming from on high,
WE'RE TOO YOUNG TO DIE.
Hooked Up (4:37)
I'm so glad I got ya hooked up on my drugEverybody dance to the music
Are you feeling well now you caught this bug
Everybody dance to the music
Think last time I took an overdose
Come on dance to the music
Made me realise I came too close
I bet ya wished you'd danced to the music, music, music, music
Dead can seem to bear no relevance,
Bet you wished you dance to the music
What you want to do is kill yourself
Still you don't dance to the music
I can look at you and hear your scream
Come on dance to the music
And tell me that you needles clean
Come on dance, dance
Come on now dance to the music
I need it, I need it x2
Don't you get hooked up
'Cos music is the drug
Don't you get hooked up
If I Like It, I Do It (4:35)
Say that we have all the time we need to make it rightDon't hurry for nobody
If it ain't the thing you like
Know your place and fit your space, young man you will conform
I didn't hear my soul express those rules when I was born
Cause I'm free to roam 'cause it's my home
You can't stop sweet inclination
The kids want the system breaking down
Not higher education
If it ain't no natural law
Then you can keep your regulations
Cause if I like it I do it
But I keep on movin' though they wanna bring me down
I've gotta run for the cover
And I keep so smiling
Though they wanna tie me down and give me death for the lover
And I keep on losing though I'm proving what I'm doing
I'm still groovin', and if I like it I do it
You've got to help those people break that legislation
We can overcome this suffocation
Execute your natural liberation
Happy to enjoy rejuvenation
All around hear the sound
No-one can stop us now
A thousand rules for plastic fools
Now they can take a bow.
Surely there's been time to see it doesn’t work by now
So if I like it, I do it
Still I,
Keep on finding that they're pushing those distorted visions
And I keep on living but I'm dying 'cause of their decisions
If I keep on looking I can find a higher space
I'm still groovin' and if I like it I'll do it
Music of the Mind (6:22)
InstrumentalEmergency On Planet Earth (4:04)
The kids need educationAnd the streets are never clean, I've seen
A certain disposition
Prevailing in the wind
Sweet change
If anybody's listening, oh
Emergency on planet earth
Is that life that I am witnessing
Or just another wasted birth
(Chorus)
Now, we got emergency
Oh, we got emergency on planet earth
Now, we got emergency
Oh, we got emergency on planet earth
I think we're standing for injustice
White gets two and black gets five years
Took me quite a while to focus
But now I know my head is cleared
And a little boy in hungry land
Is just a picture in the news
Won't see him in that tv advertising
'Cause it might put you off your food, hey yeah
Whatever It Is, I Just Can't Stop (4:07)
If I pick it up, can I put it downWhatever it is I just can't stop
For only 20 seconds at a time it's all mine
I got too much pressure
Got me under it's thumb
And it's no fun, you can lose
Now I got a choice but I can't choose
Insistent as you are
Is no guarantee that you'll go far
Rock steady, if you can
But I've never been a steady man
People, wanna shoot you down
If you can't swim then you will drown
In sorrow
Can't get no medical attention till tomorrow
Sadlands are where I live
But that's none of your business
You keep asking, and soon enough
The kids gonna have to get rough
Maybe I'm a speed king
Push with the foot and I'm smiling
I can glide on the love inside
And there was you thinking that my hands were tied
All along I saw you hoping
I would slip and I'm not joking
The evidence in these events
Is still your lack of common sense
Did you really think that I would sink
Because I like another drink
Have to get up to get down
The remedy is in the sound
Absurdity of your suggestion
Leaves me asking just one question
If you are my friend today ?
Why do you want to hear me say ?
If I pick it up, can I put it down
Whatever it is, I just can't stop
(Repeat All)
Blow Your Mind (8:33)
Oh oh yeahDon't you know
That now you blow my mind
Honey
You're sweeter
That anything, I need you
Want to get closer to you
I want you get closer to you now
Love 'ya
I need 'ya
I think I wanna squeeze 'ya
Nightly
So tightly
Girl you know you really blow my mind
Say it again
Just one more time
I've got to know
How you came to blow my mind
Closer
Pleasure, passion
Tonights the night I'm looking for your action
I want to hold you
Don't you know now you blow my mind
Say it again
Just one more time
I've got to know
How you came to blow my mind
Closer
Fever, hot now
Help me wipe the sweat away from my brow,
Sexy
Oh lady
Don't you know this time you blow my mind
Oh don't you know yeah
Don't you know by now that now you blow my mind
Oh yes you do
Oh yes you do
Oh yes you blow my mind
Revolution 1993 (10:17)
You've got to stand upStay strong
Start movin' in the right direction
Don't wait
Too long
For people promising divine intervention
19 nine three
Now I'm taking matters into my own hands
So fast
I can't see
A revolution is the only way that we can change change change
I wanna fight the power
Well it's hard times
White lines
Kids of nine gettin' down with gun crime
War zones
No homes
Ain't it time we gave the dog a bone
Say brothers
Sisters
Step up and put yourself in the picture
This time
You know
A revolution if the only way that we can change change change
I want to fight the power
Question
Answer
Shake your hand and smile for the camera
But it's
No good
You should spend time in your neighbourhood
Where black kids
White kids
Now you're working overtime to be a crack kid
No job
No cash
A revolution is the only way that we can change change change
I wanna fight the power
Still we don't seem to understand we need a revolution
Everybody wants a revolution
Who is
This man
I'm having trouble finding out where I'm coming from
Preconceptions
It's eternal human infection one chance
Learn how you're gonna change the habit of a lifetime my soul concerned
That revolution is the only way that we can change change change
I wanna fight the power
Higher
Higher
Now we're gonna learn to fight the power
Sunshine
New day
I only know how to get the right way
Faster
Stronger I help my brother and my soul lives longer
Blinded
I can't see
That revolution is the only way that we can change change change
I wanna fight the power
No doubt
In time
Everything is sweet sunshine
But in the meantime
Mankind
Is having trouble where to draw the line
We still don't
Respect
And yet I thought we had intellect
Sometimes I think the music is the only hope we have for revolution
Still we don't seem to understand we need a revolution
Everybody needs a revolution