Written by: Jackson Jackson
Recordings:
- The Fire is on The Bird (2007)
Note. These lyrics are unconfirmed. They have simply been transcribed by myself and John (empire cat).
Feel free to comment this post if you feel any corrections need to be made.
Lyrics:
(italics represent spoken dialogue)
Give me a pocket full of change or I'll shoot you dead
Well I'm sorry but I have nothing to spare
I only brought three dollars thirty for the train fare
Ten cents change and I threw it in the air
An angel snatched it up out of the breeze
It was Gabriel, the real deal, the burner of the fleece
He said "Even angels have to beg for their supper now
The end of the world is canceled, Jesus gone the the Bahamas
With Mohammad"
"They're gonna try and sort some shit out
prophet to prophet, leave the common people out
'cause the common people bleed and the common people burn
from another man's war and another man's words"
I know that the world has always been absurd
But I never thought I'd see the day angels out of work
"Sorry man, my phone's ringing, stop the track
Hey Jules-"
"...communications with those dudes down stairs and they're about ready to come up and rock this motherfucker!"
"Jules, sorry, I'll call you right back"
Every time I cry rain falls from the sky
And I know there's gonna to be another war ah-ha
'Cause the devil and the Lord fight with the same sword
And a burning battleground is in my mind.
I saw my future out the window of a plane
In the darkness, two hours out from LA
Star light, cloud light, seat-belt light waves
And the people slept like sleeping beauty babies
Maybe one day we will all evolve to light waves
I have to say, sometimes I feel like that on bright days
And all our predictions could be postcards to God
And all our premonitions could be lost in the fog
(Starlight) The one thing I can swear by,
whereby Hen's night surrounds my 747
while, diet clouds-
"Sorry it's Jules again, Hey mate-"
"Man, why don't you call me back?
"Hey mate"
"You need to call me back!, how important can the track be?
"yeah, yep, yep"
"we're talking about the world, man, we're talking about the end of the world"
"Hey, listen dude, I'm still laying down this track, I'll call you at the end."
Every time I cry rain falls from the sky
And I know there's gonna to be another war ah-ha
'Cause the devil and the Lord fight with the same sword
And a burning battleground is in my mind.
"That was pretty good"
"That was dope!"
"I better call bloody Jules back..."
"Hey you called Jules. I can't come to the phone right now, and ah, never again actually
I'm finished with phones. I'm finished with television. I'm ready for the bigger and better things in space."
(Space!)
So obviously man I can't come to the phone and the moment
So please leave a message of hope
I've already left planet earth in my ship
We were saving you a birth but we had to split
You were too busy making your stupid track
You concepts are whack, your rhymes are whack
I told you from the star,t but you wouldn't fucking listen
Now we're going on a spaceship and you're not on the spaceship
I lost patience, I had some information
About the imminent invasion from the underground nation
But... no one... would... listen
Every time I cry rain falls from the sky
And I know there's gonna to be another war ah-ha
'Cause the devil and the Lord fight with the same sword
And a burning battleground is in my mind.
Every time I cry rain falls from the sky
And I know there's gonna to be another war ah-ha
'Cause the devil and the Lord fight with the same sword
And a burning battleground is in my mind.
Actually, sorry man, I got the chorus a bit wrong... it isn't "An eternal battleground..." as I once thought, but ""And a burning battleground..."
ReplyDeletethanks mate, fixed them.
ReplyDeleteAnd thanked you, which I forgot to add last night, sorry.
:)
Second verse should be:
ReplyDelete"It was Gabriel, the real deal, the burner of the fleece"
and
"prophet to prophet"
Good work otherwise, what a tune!
Cheers man. Fixed.
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