ccclxxvii. WONDER, Stevie (1950- )
from: Songs in the Key of Life
A heavy song about those who waste their lives in a pastime (drugs, violence, etc.) , which might seem like paradise (drugs'll do that ...)
A future paradise could mean Heaven -- it might also mean turning your life around and spending your remaining days on Earth wisely ...
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They've been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
They've been wasting most their time
Glorifying days long gone behind
They've been wasting most most their days
In remembrance of ignorance oldest praise
Tell me who of them will come to be
How many of them are you and me
Dissipation
Race Relations
Consolation
Segregation
Dispensation
Isolation
Exploitation
Mutilation
Mutation
Miscreation
Confirmation ... to the evils of the world
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a future paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a future paradise
They've been looking in their minds
For the day that sorrows lost from time
They keep telling of the day
When the Saviour of love will come to stay
Tell me who of them will come to be
How many of them are you and me
Proclamation
Of Race Relations
Consolation
Integration
Verification
Of Revelations
Acclamation
World Salvation
Vibration
Stimulation
Confirmation ... to the peace of the world
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a future paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a future paradise
We've been spending too much of our lives
Living in a pastime paradise
Let's start living our lives
Living for the future paradise
Praise to our lives
Living for the future paradise
Shame to anyone's lives
Living in a pastime paradise
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