Shine Over Babylon

[Verse 1]

I walked the heat of seven hills

Endless talk of losin' wills

Great highways in a constant melt

Men and women and children all have overbuilt

Buyin' bread and payin' for none

Creatures of a waning sun

Teachers' hands are overrun

Clowns and gypsies all but gone

[Chorus]

You make me wanna

Shine over Babylon

You make me wanna

Shine over Babylon

[Verse 2]

Freedoms etched on sacred pillars

Hollow stones of mindless filler

Can lead to madman oil drillers

It won't be long before we all are killers

Little boy lost way up the mountains

Cities drowning under boilin' fountains

I dreamed of chilly, sunlit days

I was trembling in a golden haze

[Chorus]

You make me wanna

Shine over Babylon

You make me wanna

Shine over Babylon

[Verse 3]

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 nothin' here for you to cry about

We're all just followers from here on out

[Verse 4]

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 ganja

Scavengers, they run up and hand ya

All the junk that should have damned ya

[Chorus]

You make me wanna

Shine over Babylon

You make me wanna

Shine over Babylon

[Bridge]

If everything in life was free

We'd float in our own reverie

The things that you could never see

Seal the gap between you and me

[Chorus]

You make me wanna

Shine over Babylon

You make me wanna

Shine over Babylon

You make me wanna

Shine over Babylon

You make me wanna

Shine over Babylon