Time in Babylon

Lyrics

Five-lane highway danger zone
 SUV and a speaker phone
 You need that chrome to get you home
 Doin' time in Babylon
 Cluster mansion on the hill
 Another day in Pleasantville
 You don't like it, take a pill
 Doin' time in Babylon
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 In the land of the proud and free
 You can sell your soul and your dignity
 For fifteen minutes on TV
 Doin' time in Babylon
 So suck the fat, cut the bone
 Fill it up with silicone
 Everybody must get cloned
 Doin' time in Babylon
 Little boy blue come blow your horn
 The crows are in the corn
 The morning sky is red and falling down
 The piper's at the till
 He's coming for the kill
 Luring all our children
 Underground in Babylon
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 We can from apple pie and mom
 Through Civil Rights and Ban the Bomb
 To Watergate and Vietnam
 Hard times in Babylon
 Rallied round the megaphone
 Gave it up, just got stoned
 Now it's Prada, Gucci and Ferron
 Doin' time in Babylon
 Little boy blue come blow your horn
 The crows are in the corn
 The morning sky is red and falling down
 The piper's at the till
 He's coming for the kill
 Luring all our children
 Underground in Babylon
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 Get results, get 'em fast
 We're ready if you got the cash
 Someone else will be laughin' last
 Doin' time in Babylon
 So put that conscience on the shelf
 Keep the best stuff for yourself
 Let the rest fight over what is left
 Doin' time in Babylon
 Little boy blue come blow your horn
 The crows are in the corn
 The morning sky is red and falling down
 Let your song of healing spark
 A way out of this dark
 Lead us to a higher and a holy ground
 

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Song Details

Duration
04:37
Key
6
Tempo
145 BPM

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