INTRO – A RIFF
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Picture a bright blue ball just spinning spinning free,Dizzy with eternity
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Painted with a skin of sky brush in some clouds and sea
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Call it home to you and me
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A peaceful place or so it looks from space.
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A closer look reveals the human race
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Full of hope full of grace is the human face
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But afraid we may lay our home to waste
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There’s a fear down hear we can’t forget. Hasn’t got a name just yet
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Always awake always around, singing’ ashes ashes all fall down
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Now watch the ball revolves as the nighttime falls
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And again the hunt begins, and again the blood wind calls
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By and by again, the morning sun will rise.
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But the darkness never goes from some men’s eyes
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It strolls the sidewalks and it rolls the streets
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Staking turf dividing up meat
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Nightmare spook peace of heat, you and me, you and me
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Flash switch blade in the ghetto night. Rudies looking for a fight
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Ratcat alley roll them bones, need that cash to feed that jones
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And the politicians throwing stones
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Singing ashes ashes all fall down. Ashes ashes all fall down
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Commissars and pinstripe bosses roll the dice.
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