Hymn Of The Big Wheel

Song Hymn Of The Big Wheel
Artist Massive Attack
Album Blue Lines

Lyrics

[00:50.03] The big wheel keeps on turning
[00:54.65] On a simple line day by day
[00:59.80] The earth spins on its axis
[01:04.48] One man struggle while another relaxes
[01:09.40] There's a hole in my soul like a cavity
[01:12.84]
[01:13.86] Seems like the world is out to gather just by gravity
[01:19.28] The wheel keeps turning the sky's rearranging
[01:24.76] Look my son the weather is changing
[01:29.53] I'd like to feel that you could be free
[01:34.15] Look up at the blue skies beneath a new tree
[01:38.20] Sometime again
[01:39.89] You'll turn green and the sea turns red
[01:45.05] My son I said the power of axis over my head
[01:52.14] The big wheel keeps on turning
[01:56.44] On a simple line day by day
[02:02.05] The earth spins on its axis
[02:06.42] One man struggle while another relaxes
[02:11.91] We sang about the sun and danced among the trees
[02:16.44] And we listened to the whisper of the city on the breeze
[02:21.56] Will you cry in the most in a lead-free zone
[02:27.04] Down within the shadows where the factories drone
[02:31.73] On the surface of the wheel they build another town
[02:36.53] And so the green come tumbling down
[02:39.46]
[02:41.74] Yes close your eyes and hold me tight
[02:46.61] And i'll show you sunset sometime again
[02:52.08] The big wheel keeps on turning
[02:56.19] On a simple line day by day
[03:01.81] The earth spins on its axis
[03:06.82] One man struggle while another relaxes
[03:22.55]
[03:36.64] As a child's silent prayer my hope hides in disguise
[03:41.41] While satellites and cameras watch from the skies
[03:46.53] An acid drop of rain recycled from the sea
[03:51.52] It washed away my shadow burnt a hole in me
[03:56.52] And all the king's men cannot put it back again
[04:01.43] But the ghetto sun will nurture life
[04:06.51] And mend my soul sometime again
[04:19.06] The big wheel keeps on turning
[04:23.87] On a simple line day by day
[04:28.87] The earth spins on its axis
[04:33.55] One man struggle while another relaxes
[04:36.38]
[04:39.06] The big wheel keeps on turning
[04:43.74] On a simple line day by day
[04:48.98] The earth spins on its axis
[04:53.41] One man struggle while another relaxes
[04:58.90] The big wheel keeps on turning
[05:03.46] On a simple line day by day
[05:08.95] The earth spins on its axis
[05:13.94] One man struggle while another relaxes