the sound of music, my favorite thing

finally found the lyrics for my favorite song... here they are, excerpted, for your reading pleasure (let me know if you want the CD)... I listen to this song over & over, it never gets old. i used to listen to it in the morning before arriving at school, a nice revolutionary shot in the arm to prepare me to face the day.

nowadays I can also be found listening to my new fave CD, a Buddhist nun lecturing on "from fear to fearlessness"--how's that for a contrast! but actually it all goes together...

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"Heaven Tonight"
by The Coup (from the album "Party Music")

Chorus:
Preacher man wanna save my soul
Don't nobody wanna save my life
People we done lost control
Let's make heaven tonite
[repeat]

I got faith in the people and they power to fight
We gon make the struggle blossom
Like a flower to light
I know that we could take power tonight
Make 'em cower from might
And get emergency clearance from the tower for flight

I ain't sittin in your pews 'less you helpin' me resist and refuse
Show me a list of your views
If you really love me
Help me tear this muthafucka up
Consider this my tithe for the offer cup

[Chorus]

I used to think about infinity
And how my memory is fi'nta be
Invisibly slim in that vicinity
And though the stars are magnificent
Whisky and the midnight sky can make you feel insignificant

The revolution in this tune and verse
Is a bid for my love to touch the universe
Strugglin' over wages and funds
Let the movement get contagious and run
Through the end when it's gauges and guns
And if we win in the ages to come
We'll have a chapter where the history pages are from

They won't never know our name or face
But feel our soul in free food they taste
Feel our passion when they heat they house
When they got power on the streets
And the police don't beat 'em about

Let's make health care centers on every block
Let's give everybody homes and a garden plot
Let's give all the schools books
Ten kids a class
And give 'em truth for their pencils and pads
Retail clerk - "love ballads" where you place this song
Let's make heaven right here
Just in case they wrong

[Chorus]