Up There Down There

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Up there
 There's a ball of fire
 Some call it the spirit
 Some call it the sun
 Its energies are not for hire
 It serves man
 It serves everyone
 Down there where Jonah wails
 In the healing water
 The ready depths
 Twisting like silver swans
 No line of death, no boundaries
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 Up there
 The eye is hollow
 The eye is winking
 The winds ablaze
 Angels howling
 His sphinx awakens
 But what can she say?
 If they're amazed
 Down there
 Days are numbers
 We all know numbers
 Nothing to fear
 There will be trumpets
 There will be silence
 If in the end
 It all here just here
 Ah, the borders of heaven are
 Zipped up tight tonight
 The abstract streets
 Let lights like some switched on Mondrian
 Cats like us are obsolete
 Hey man, don't breathe on my feet
 Thieves, poets we're inside out
 And everybody's a soldier
 Angels howl at those abstract lights
 And the borders of Heaven
 Zipped up tight tonight
 Up there
 There's a ball of fire
 Some call it the spirit
 Some call it the sun
 Its energies are not for hire
 It serves man
 It serves everyone
 The air we breathe
 The blame of wisdom
 The earth we grind
 The beckoning sea
 No mystery
 Not sentimental
 Ah, the equation
 It's all elemental
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 The world is restless
 Heaven in flux
 Angels appear
 From the bright storm
 Out of the shadows
 Up there, down there
 But what can we say?
 Man's been forewarned
 All communion is not holy
 Even those that fall
 Oh, they can prophet, understanding
 It's all for man
 It's for everyone
 It's up there, down there
 Everywhere, everywhere
 Time for communion, time for communion
 Eh, time for there
 Up there, in there
 Everywhere, everywhere
 Everywhere, everywhere
 

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Duration
04:49
Key
5
Tempo
128 BPM

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