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Patti Smith Land 1975 2002

by the edge of clouds It was a crying shame Another lost horizon Tibet the fallen star Wisdom and compassion crushed In the land of Shangri-La But in the land

you ready? Let's go Hi, hi, hey, hey Maybe I will come back some day now But tonight on the wings of a dove Up above to the land of love Now I lay me

We shall live again We shall live What is it children that falls from the sky? Tayi, taya, tayi, aye aye Mannah from Heaven, from the Most High Food

Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine Meltin' in a pot of thieves, wild card up my sleeve Thick heart of stone, my sins my own They belong to me

Sixteen and time to pay off I get this job in a piss factory inspecting pipe Forty hours, thirty-six dollars a week But it's a paycheck, Jack So hot

Baby was a black sheep, baby was a whore Baby got big and baby get bigger Baby get something, baby get more Baby, baby, baby was a rock n' roll nigger

I was down in Georgia nothing was as real As the street beneath my feet descending into air The cauldron was a bubbling, the flesh was lean And the women

I haven't fucked much with the past But I've fucked plenty with the future Over the skin of silk are scars From the splinters of stations and walls I'

: she is benediction she is addicted to thee she is the root connection she is connecting with he here I go and I don't know why I fell so ceaselessly