Shine Over Babylon

Song Shine Over Babylon
Artist Sheryl Crow
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Lyrics

[00:00.43] Shine Over Babylon
[00:02.61] I walked the heat of seven hills
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[00:06.67] Endless talk of losing wills
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[00:10.67] Great highways in a constant melt
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[00:14.55] Men and women and children all have overbuilt
[00:18.80] Buying bread and paying for none
[00:22.30] Creatures of a waning sun
[00:26.48] Teacher's hands are overrun
[00:30.55] Clowns and gypsies have all but gone
[00:33.10] You make me wanna
[00:34.90] Shine over Babylon
[00:41.09] You make me wanna
[00:42.96] Shine over Babylon
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[00:50.65] Freedoms etched on Sacred pillars
[00:54.34] Hollow stones of mindless filler
[00:58.40] Can lead to madman oil drillers
[01:02.35] Won't be long before we all are killers
[01:06.54] Little boy lost way up the mountains
[01:10.27] Cities drowning under boiling fountains
[01:14.24] I dreamed of chilly, sunlit days
[01:18.19] I was trembling in a golden haze
[01:20.82] You make me wanna
[01:22.63] Shine over Babylon
[01:28.57] You make me wanna
[01:30.57] Shine over Babylon
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[01:38.32] We celebrate the golden cow
[01:42.07] Praise the bloated bank account
[01:46.19] If there's a god where is he now
[01:50.07] The precipice is slipping further out
[01:54.19] Sanskrit message from the mounts
[01:58.00] Leave your possessions, hope abounds
[02:02.07] There's nothing here for you to cry about
[02:05.94] We're all just followers from here on out
[02:10.01] I take the stage, I walk the planks
[02:13.88] I sing these songs with little thanks
[02:17.88] I wait for shouts from crazy cranks
[02:21.75] I stand amidst the brown shirt ranks
[02:25.90] I found my way to Alexandria
[02:29.76] Where gurus bubble up on Ganges
[02:33.76] Scavengers, they run up and hand ya
[02:37.75] All the junk that should have damned ya
[02:41.50] You make me wanna
[02:42.38] Shine over Babylon
[02:49.00] You make me wanna
[02:50.19] Shine over Babylon
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[03:16.31] If everything in life was free
[03:18.25] You'd float in your own reverie
[03:21.94] The things that you can't seem to see
[03:25.69] Seal the gap between you and me
[03:28.13] You make me wanna
[03:30.00] Shine over Babylon
[03:36.19] You make me wanna
[03:37.88] Shine over Babylon
[03:44.07] You make me wanna
[03:45.81] Shine over Babylon
[03:52.25] You make me wanna
[03:53.77] Shine over Babylon
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