HIGH CIVILIZATION
By
Bee Gees
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Cryin’ in the streets
They run for their lives
How can you lead them to heaven
They don’t realize
Children of the night
How far can we fall
That which we say is forever
Ain’t no time at all
Father and the son
Not too young to be old
Reach out for each other when
The world goes cold
Feel so good to be home
Are you ready for
My high civilization
Are you ready for
My high civilization
Are you ready for
My high civilization
Civilization
Everything for us to see
The ultimate society
Keeper of the sword
You fight for your rights
How can you live for the hour
When there’s no yesterday
Dyin’ in the streets
Your number your name
All that which keeps us together
Is bringing us the pain
Thunder of the guns
Comes the criminal mind
Working for the power of
The evil eye
We are never alone
Uncivilized
New York, Paris, Tokyo
Vienna to Berlin
Baby don’t know you
L.A., Rome, Afghanistan
Cairo to Iran
No city can hold you
There’s no one in Avalon to show you
Minutes into seconds are you ready
For the end
WHEN THE SWALLOWS FLY
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I wander lonely as a cloud
I keep my head above the crowd
Ain’t nobody else as big as me
But I must remember friends
What has to start just has to end
Everybody’s got a destiny
And I know when the swallows flies
Yes I know, and the earth just dies
Then I’ll be told what I am
The swallow and me
I’ll look after number one
I’ll forget the beggar’s son
Everybody’s got to stay alive
I’ll keep a-walking amongst the clouds
I’ll keep my head above the crowd
I’ll watch them live, I’ll watch them die
And I know when the swallows flies
Yes I know, and the earth just dies
Then I’ll be told what I am
The swallow and me
And I know when the swallows flies
Yes I know, and the earth just dies
Yes I know when the swallow flies
Yes I know, and the earth just dies
CRAISE FINTON KIRK ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS
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He smiled and rubbed the stubble on his chin
He sure shall find the weariness and dreariness of life that’s growing thin
Yet he didn’t have so very far to go
With a pencil in his hand he will travel on as planned
With a mere step in the mountain to a light
Craise Finton Kirk, see him go, on his way
Oh they don’t know where he is
Very very nice, very very nice
Even in the morning when he slept
Something odd is missing
There’s nothing very much to talk about
And nothing very much to see
Craise Finton Kirk, see him go, on his way
oh they don’t know where he is
Very very nice, very very nice
Talks about the place he’d like to go
And you never see the worrying and hurrying and that makes a person slow
Yet you wouldn’t think he’d be so hard to find
Yet he looks so very busy but there’s nothing on his mind
And his wavy hair continues not to grow
Craise Finton Kirk, see him go, on his way
oh they don’t know where he is
Very very nice, very very nice
Craise Finton Kirk, see him go, on his way
Oh they don’t know where he is
Very very nice, very very nice
I CAN’T SEE NOBODY
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I walk the lonely streets; I watch the people passing by.
I used to smile and say hello. Guess I was just a happy guy.
Then you happened,girl, this feeling that posessses me.
I just can’t move myself. I guess it all just had to be.
I can’t see nobody…no, I can’t see nobody.
Mine eyes can only look at you…you.
I used to have a brain; I used to think of many things.
I watched the falling rain and listened to the sweet birds sing.
Don’t ask me why, little girl. I love you and that’s all I can say.
You’re ev’ry ,ev’ry breath I take.You are my nights; my night and day.
Every single word you hear…is coming from this heart of mine.
I never felt like this before…a love like yours so young and fine.
And now as I try to forget you…it doesn’t work out any way.
I loved you such a long time ago…but in my eyes you’ll always be.
Every single word you hear…is coming from this heart of mine.
I loved you such a long time ago…don’t know why…
And I don’t know why…baby…
LIVING EYES
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Would you believe me if I told you your tomorrow is my yesterday
But be alive
I know that we will
The world keeps on moving but I’m holdin’ still
In the beginning I was far away and praying for my destiny
That would arrive
The moment you’re born
For we will be here when the miracle comes
Living Eyes,when under the sun don’t cry
No war in my mind
The state of my heart
Living eyes, when out in the rain will fall
The day I deny the face of my love
We are of age, we are in time
We are forever
Right now when the power is mine
I leave you heaven and the earth
I leave you never
And living to love is the reason we shine
When I been over I been under
I don’t own a dream to analyze
But living eyes you know that I do
believe in the soul and the magic of you
Living eyes, when under the sun don’t cry
No war in my mind
The state of my heart
Living eyes, when out in the rain will fall
The day I deny the face of my love
We are of age,we are in time
We are forever
Right now when the power is mine
I leave you heaven and the earth
I leave you never
And living to love is the reason we shine
Living eyes
When under the sun don’t cry
No war in my mind
The state of my heart
Living
BACK HOME
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Took a plane to Cairo
Then a Cessna to Rome
I got hijacked to Tel Aviv
And it’s the first time that I’ve flown
But I’ve found my Shangri-la
In a place that’s not too far , back home
Took a train to Jordan
And to Texas and back
I met Lyndon B. Johnson and I felt his hand on my back
But I found my Shangri-la
In a place that’s not too far, back home
Back home, back home,
back home, back home,
back home, back home