Thievery Corporation - The Richest Man in Babylon Album Lyrics

Do you applaud fear
Do you hold it near
Are you afraid to live your life
The way I perceive
In my arms I'll catch you
Do you mind If I always love you

Heaven's gonna burn your eyes

You'll see
In my dream I'll catch you
Into my arms I'll catch you
Do you mind if I always love you

Heaven's gonna burn your eyes

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Jah Rastafari
One heart
One love
One moon
One earth
One light
The almighty
Jah Rastafari
Unfathomable
Master builder of creastion
Jah rastafari
Who stands to rule and reign worldwide
Ras mean king
Tafari mean head creator
Supreme supremacy
Ruler among the mighty
He touched and lightning scorched
Rebuked the wind
And chastised thunder
The almighty
Him alone the only international field marshal
Helaie-I Selasie

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Day by day, people get sick of one another
Day by day, people chase each other away

I chose solitude
For I lost faith in my world
I had dreams of peace
How simple hearted was I

Day by day, people get sick of one another
Day by day, people chase each other away

Omid do what is in your power
To save us from all this pain
Forbid our lives to go by
So fast and abruptly
Without true love and happiness

Day by day, people get sick of one another
Day by day, people chase each other away

Everything that's real and everything unrealized
All infinity starts falling from your eyes
We are fluid dreams, vivid memories
All uncertainty leads to eternity

All that we perceive in every mystery
Who are we? What we see? Oh, I can't comprehend
Who are we? What we see? Whoa, I can't comprehend

Illuminating love falls from the skies
To water the illusions in our eyes
All that we desire is all we fear
All our aspirations grow unclear

We feel endlessly, beyond all gravity
Who are we? What we see? Oh, I can't comprehend
Who are we? What we see? Whoa, I can't comprehend

Couleur de vie, couleur de joie
O sont tes larmes, tous tes mots
Et puisque t'en a marre de voir
Tous les gens souffrir
Cette notion trop simple et nave
Parvenir vaincre une loi
Loi invisible, si injuste
Si injuste, si sombre

Vis ta vie, elle est si belle
Vis ta vie, c'est la tienne
Vis ta vie, sans mensonge
Vis ta vie, comme tu veux

Couleur de vie, couleur de joie
O est ce feu philosophique
Ton esprit condens, pulveris
Subtil par toutes tes larmes

Vis ta vie, elle est si belle
Vis ta vie, c'est la tienne
Vis ta vie, sans mensonge
Vis ta vie, comme tu veux

Vis ta vie, elle est si belle
Vis ta vie, c'est la tienne
Vis ta vie, sans mensonge
Vis ta vie, comme tu veux

Vis ta vie, elle est si belle
Vis ta vie, c'est la tienne

Eu vou sem senhuma direção
E eu so, não preciso nada mais
Lua, estrela
Meu caminho, meu destino

Lua, sol, que me dão seu calor

E eu, e eu
E eu, e eu

Chuva, seu olhar que me dá o seu calor
Que me dá a direção
Que me dá o meu valor
Que me dá seu calor

Eu vou, eu vou
Eu so, eu so

Eu vou, eu vou
Sem nenhuma direção

E eu, e eu
E eu, e eu

Le le la lo la le
Ven, ven
Ven, ven
Ven, vente a gozar

Ven, ven
Ven, ven
Ven, vente a bailar

Nuestra persistencia y nuestra alegría
Identifican nuestra raza, latina
Hemos salido de nuestra tierra
Huyendo de los problemas
Corriendo de las balas
Buscando mirar una oportunidad
Para mejorar

Paz, paz, paz pide la gente
Paz, paz, paz pide la mente
Las escopetas
Paz, paz, paz pide la gente
Paz, paz, paz pide la mente
Las escopetas también dicen

Y la violencia trae la violencia
La corrupción la destrucción
¿Honestidad donde te has ido?
Que no te encuentro ya

Le le la lo la le
Ven, ven
Ven, ven
Ven, vente a gozar

Ven, ven
Ven, ven
Ven, vente a bailar

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There is no guidance in your kingdom
Your wicked walk in Babylon
There is no wisdom to your freedom
The richest man in Babylon

Your beggars sleep outside your doorway
Your prophets leave to wander on
You fall asleep at night with worry
The saddest man in Babylon

The wicked stench of exploitation
Hangs in the air and lingers on
Beneath the praise and admiration
The weakest man in Babylon

There is no hope left in your kingdom
Your servants have burned all their songs
Nobody here remembers freedom
The richest man in Babylon

You better know you better understand
The right to know the better you can say
Babylon this is the final way

Babylon this is the final count
Read the [Incomprehensible] the song
Since [Incomprehensible] and together we fall
And if I know that [Incomprehensible]

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People in the misery
Government or work or government
It makes a mockery
Respect to the youths
When they're in front and all dem back a me
Why you don't treat them like the way you should

And I know all the things you hide
Even though it's a good disguise
And I see all the things you do
But what you do will come back to you
You think we can't fight what the eyes can't see
Because you think we are blind in poverty

People in the misery
Government or work or government
It makes a mockery
Respect to the youths
When they're in front and all dem back a me
Why you don't treat them like the way you should

People in the misery
Government or work or government
It makes a mockery
Respect to the youths
When they're in front and all dem back a me
Why you don't treat them like the way you should

It's like you wants the people to kill
And fire gunshots and burn buildings to hell
No, after that you aren't gonna treat me well
It's like you have the people under a spell, Mr Devil
Talking to the people in the congress
A we vote you in, so you better do you best because
After that there's no contest
It's the state of the union address

People in the misery
Government or work or government
It makes a mockery
Respect to the youths
When they're in front and all dem back a me
Why you don't treat them like the way you should

People in the misery
Government or work or government
It makes a mockery
Respect to the youths
When they're in front and all dem back a me
Why you don't treat them like the way you should

Broadcasting lies on the television screen
Trying to get us hooked on your American dream
Up on your games if you know when you'll win
When you cheated on your wife with your moneys and your scheme
Thief will rule and no doubt he'll be followed
We are no fool and no call me no nigga
Do a good term and you deserve another
Signed musically yours, the general sleepywonder

People in the misery
Government or work or government
It makes a mockery
Respect to the youths
When they're in front and all dem back a me
Why you don't treat them like the way you should

People in the misery
Government or work or government
It makes a mockery
Respect to the youths
When they're in front and all dem back a me
Why you don't treat them like the way you should

I keep on fear, keep on loathing
Nothing brings it on I keep on falling
Decide what it is, I cannot find
It's subsides, what you make it
Never feel like you're gonna break it
It's gonna be alright, alright

Sleep until the morning comes
The sun will warm your soul
Sleep until the morning comes for you, okay yeah
'Til the morning it's alright
I can walk into the sunlight
Into the day, into the day, to the day

I feel it falling, nothing comes to my mind
Bring it on in a different tide
I feel alright, alright, now
I feel strong, I feel rigid
It's nothing to do with the vision
Oh, feels so right, so right

Sleep on tight, sleep on tight
Sleep until the sunlight, sleep until sunlight
Sleep on tight, sleep on tight
Sleep on tight

Sleep on tight, 'til the sunlight
Sleep on tight, 'til the sunlight burns you happy
'Til the sunlight burns you happy
'Til the sunlight burns a happy hole in your heart
In your heart
In your heart
In your heart
...

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