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Killing Joke – Lanterns (1996) | Track profile | Dork

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Killing Joke
Democracy
Lanterns

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Lanterns

Release date: 1st April 1996

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About This Track

"Lanterns" is a track by Killing Joke, from the album Democracy, released 1st April 1996. Full lyrics are available below.

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Killing Joke

Killing Joke

Lyrics

Lanterns

[Verse 1]

Equinox sun

Summers of fun

No mortgage repayments

To weigh on my mind

[Chorus]

And if it all fell through tomorrow

Put my pack on my back

And it's home where the lunatics roam

Faith, faith moved a mountain

Where the rivers are so clean

And the consciousness so green

And the luminous folk shine like

Lanterns of hope (shine on)

Lanterns of hope (shine on)

Lanterns of hope

[Verse 2]

Ribbons of wishes, tied to the trees

Hives full of honey, yield to the seed

[Chorus]

And if it all fell through tomorrow

Put my pack on my back

And it's home where the lunatics roam

Faith, faith moved a mountain

Where the rivers are so clean

And the consciousness is so green

And the luminous folk shine like

Lanterns of hope (shine on)

Lanterns of hope (shine on)

Lanterns of hope (shine on)

Lanterns of hope (shine on)

Lanterns of hope

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]

And if it all fell through tomorrow

Put my pack on my back

And it's home where the lunatics roam

Faith, faith moved a mountain

Where the rivers are so clean

And the consciousness is so green

And the luminous folk shine like

Lanterns of hope (shine on)

Lanterns of hope (shine on)

Lanterns of hope

[Outro]

Fire

Fire light the lantern

When we drink from the streams

And we grow our own greens

And the fences have all been torn down

(Shine on) Lanterns of hope

(Shine on) Lanterns of hope

(Shine on) Lanterns of hope

(Shine on) Lanterns of hope

(Shine on) Lanterns of hope

(Shine on) Lanterns of hope

(Shine on) Lanterns of hope

(Shine on) Lanterns of hope

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Track details

From Democracy

1996

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1996

—Prozac People
—Lanterns
—Pilgrimage
—Savage Freedom
—Democracy (The Russian Tundra mix)
—Another Bloody Election
—Aeon
—Medicine Wheel
—Absent Friends
—Intellect

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Writer: Geordie Walker, Jaz Coleman, Martin Glover
Producer: Martin Glover