Girl You Shine
the sky is bigger there
it took my breath away
that doesn't happen every day
Manhattan's music, man
on every avenue
you've heard no greater sound
too much can get you down
Decorate, paint it for the union
there's no reson to give up on the illusion
take confident possession of yourself
no reson to give up on the illusion
Venice is sinking fast
looks almost upside down
under a spell we fell
there's more, too much to tell
Decorate, paint it for the union
no reson to give up on the illusion
take confident posses
Lotto karamba National Education Week
[ lyrics: Natalie Merchant/music: Dennis Drew ]
honor salute and speak
to the corner standing flag
do you remember how the days of school were
indivisible separate worlds
compare contrast
these dreams absurd
placid classroom faces
breathe in the features
of a demographics death map trilogy
children read them well
not to bury 3 of 4 sons
as the likes of chivalry
not to take 6 of 30 bills
to manufacture corpus christi
and so you think it can be so serene
history's most intolerable famine
has clutched our global tranquility
reaped the lives of children
maladies collaborate
with cyclic despair
infanticide clamors to 20 times more
in 4th and 5th Worlds
the poor have always been
beside us
amid us
death has always been
as million cease 15 million that's an annual reap
add divide multiply sum 41 thousand!