SATURN
By
Stevie Wonder
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Packing my bags-going away
To a place where the air is clean
On saturn
There’s no sense to sit and watch the people die
We don’t fight our wars the way you do
We put back all the things we use
On Saturn
There’s no sense to keep on doing such crimes
There’s no principles in what you say
No direction in the things you do
For your world is soon to come to a close
Through the ages all great men have taught
Truth and happiness just can’t be bought-or sold
Tell me why are you people so cold
I’m……
Going back to Saturn where the rings all glow
Rainbow, moonbeams and orange snow
On Saturn
People live to be two hundred and five
Going back to saturn where the people smile
Don’t need cars cause we’ve learn to fly
On Saturn
Just to live to us is our natural high
We have come here many times before
To find your strategy to peace is war
Killing helpless men, women and children
That don’t even know what they are dying for
We can’t trust you when you take a stand
With a cold expression on your face
Saying give us what we want or we’ll destroy
I’m……
Going back to Saturn where the rings all glow
Rainbow, moonbeams and orange snow
On Saturn
People live to be two hundred and five
Going back to saturn where the people smile
Don’t need cars cause we’ve learn to fly
On Saturn
Just to live to us is our natural high
EDGE OF ETERNITY
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Wolf tickets are all you say I’m selling
Well that goes to show what you need to know
Cause I ain’t yackin’ nothin’ I ain’t packin’
My love can get with your love toe to toe
So when you’re ready
Really, truly ready
Holding strong and steady
I’ll be good to go
Cause if you start it
I am gonna finish it
I am gonna knock it
Like it ain’t been knocked before
Getting with this
Know you’re gonna be
Stepping off the edge of eternity
Just one kiss
Know it’s you and me
Stepping off to the edge of eternity
Dead air time is all you say you’re hearing
Well that shows how much you don’t comprehend
Cause it’s not in the loud but in the quiet
Where lies the thing that will make your head spin
So when you’re willin’
Really, truly willin’
Not just simply illin’
You just let me know
Cause when you get it
I ain’t gonna quit it
Girl, I’m gonna hit it
Like it ain’t been hit before
Gettin’ with this
Know you’re gonna be
Stepping off to the edge of eternity
Just one kiss
Know it’s you and me
Stepping off to the edge of eternity
Pie in the sky is all you say I can deliver
Well wait til you feel what I’ve got in store
One hundred and eighty pounds of good and plenty
And when you’ve got the need I’ve got some more
So when you mean it
Really, truly mean it
Not just scheming to get to it
We can get it on
Cause if you woo it
I’m going to get to it
Girl, we’re gonna do it
Until every ounce is gone
Gettin’ with this
Know you’re gonna be
Stepping off to the edge of eternity
Just one kiss
Know it’s you and me
Stepping off to the edge of eternity
Are you ready to step off the edge into eternity
Really, really ready to step off the edge into eternity
Cause if you’re ready to step off the edge into eternity
We can step right off the edge into eternity
KNOCKS ME OFF MY FEETS
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I see us in the park
Strolling the summer days of imaginings in my head
And words from our hearts
Told only to the wind felt even without being said
I don’t want to bore you with my trouble
But there’s sumptin’bout your love
That makes me weak and
Knocks me off my feet
There’s supmtin’bout your love
That makes me weak and
Knocks me off my feet
Knocks me off my feet
I don’t want to bore you with it
Oh but I love you, I love you, I love you
I don’t want to bore you with it
Oh but I love you, I love you, I love you
More and more
We lay beneath the stars
Under a lovers tree that’s seen through the eyes of my mind
I reach out for the part
Of me that lives in you that only our two hearts can find
But I don’t want to bore you with my trouble
But there’s sumptin’bout your love
That makes me weak and
Knocks me off my feet
There’s sumptin’bout your love
That makes me weak and
Knocks me off my feet
Knocks me off my feet
I don’t want to bore you with it
Oh but I love you, I love you, I love you
I don’t want to bore you with it
Oh but I love you, I love you, I love you
I don’t want to bore you with it
Oh but I love you, I love you, I love you
Darling I don’t want to bore you with it
Oh but I love you, I love you, I love you
I don’t want to bore you with it
Oh but I love you, I love you, I love you
Darling I don’t want to bore you with it
Oh but I love you, I love you, I love you
TAKE THE TIME OUT
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Lying out on the street, there’s a man
That needs somewhere to sleep
And a bag-lady digs, through the trash
Hoping to find some food to eat
In the cold winter’s snow, walks a boy
That needs shoes for his feet
In an old run-down house, there’s a child
In a crib that needs some heat
In the dark of the night, a young man
Searches for a guiding light
And a young woman cries in despair
Cause she feels alone in life
You might ask yourself what in the hell
Does that have to do with me
Well, here is your wake up call…
“Everything!”
Cause we all play a part in each other’s existence
Take the time out to love someone
Reach your arms out and hug someone
Be it king or some homeless one
We are all one underneath the sun
Take the time out to be right there
Take the time out to show you care
You’ll be so glad when the day is done
You took the time out to love someone
There’s a man in a house where they’re selling crack
Yet he’s trying to be strong
But when lost in the sea, of no hope
He must be saved from wrong
Don’t say what you won’t do, if for days
You had no food to eat
Nor extremes you won’t go, for a bed, shoes
Or if your baby needed heat
You do not have the right to pre-judge
If you don’t share your strength
And you can’t say you’re down for the fight
If you won’t go the length
Now I don’t really care what you feel
If you don’t feel for life
And don’t care what you think if your words
Don’t have ways and actions that perpetuate life
Take the time out to love someone
Reach your arms out and hug someone
Be it king or some homeless one
We are all one underneath the sun
Take the time out to be right there
Take the time out to show you care
You’ll be so glad when the day is done
You took the time out to love someone
I think it’s time to…
Take the time out to love someone
Reach your arms out and hug someone
Be it king or some homeless one
We are all one underneath the sun
Take the time out to be right there
Take the time out to show you care
You’ll be so glad when the day is done
You took the time out to love someone
GET IT
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… Miss Lady Girl
Is putting her love on the shelf
Cause she don’t want
To be hurt by nobody else
She’s taken her heart
And put it away under lock and key
But it’s high time
Miss Lady Girl sets her heart free and gives her love to me
… Some think that diamond rings, fancy cars
Will make a big impression
But I know that all she needs is my tender
Love and affection
Cause she still says
That no one’s gonna get it
No one’s gonna get it, oh no
But someone’s gotta get it
And I feel that I will be the one who will
… No one’s gonna get it
No one’s gonna get it, oh no
But someone’s gotta get it
And I know that I will be the one who will
… Gonna get it, her love
… Gonna get it, her kisses
… Gonna get it, her heart
… Gonna get it, get it
… Miss Lady Girl
Has buried her feelings deep inside
Cause she don’t want
To be taken for another ride
She’s sick and tired
of being on that lonely merry-go-round
She just don’t know
That the ultimate love
Of her life is about to be found
… They think that ready cash, flashy clothes
Will fill her life with laughter
But I’ve got the very thing that she needs
True love forever after
Then no more will she say
That no one’s gonna get it
No one’s gonna get it, oh no
But someone’s gotta get it
And I feel that I will be the one who will
… No one’s gonna got it
No one’s gonna get It, oh no
But someone’s gonna get it
And I know that I will be the one who will
Gonna get it, her love
Gonna get it, her kisses
Gonna get it, her heart
Gonna get it, gonna get it,
LIVING FOR THE CITY
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A boy is born in hard time Mississippi
Surrounded by four walls that ain’t so pretty
His parents give him love and affection
To keep him strong moving in the right direction
Living just enough, just enough for the city…ee ha!
His father works some days for fourteen hours
And you can bet he barely makes a dollar
His mother goes to scrub the floor for many
And you’d best believe she hardly gets a penny
Living just enough, just enough for the city…yeah
His sister’s black but she is sho ’nuff pretty
Her skirt is short but Lord her legs are sturdy
To walk to school she’s got to get up early
Her clothes are old but never are they dirty
Living just enough, just enough for the city…um hum
Her brother’s smart he’s got more sense than many
His patience’s long but soon he won’t have any
To find a job is like a haystack needle
Cause where he lives they don’t use colored people
Living just enough, just enough for the city…
Living just enough…
For the city…ooh,ooh
His hair is long, his feet are hard and gritty
He spends his love walking the streets of New York City
He’s almost dead from breathing on air pollution
He tried to vote but to him there’s no solution
Living just enough, just enough for the city…yeah, yeah, yeah!
I hope you hear inside my voice of sorrow
And that it motivates you to make a better tomorrow
This place is cruel no where could be much colder
If we don’t change the world will soon be over
Living just enough, just enough for the city!!!!
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