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Alive Under the Sun Lyrics by Hermitofthewoods

Land of the Lotus Eaters

2013

[Spoken word]
There are seven billion ways to live, chose one
And let the sum of all parts be called people of the sun
And everyone is different as much as they are the same
And everyone tries to survive in the same game
We need to eat, we need a place to sleep
We need warmth in the winter, shoes for our feet
We need love, but we settle for substitutes
The jazz machine will pound away forever to produce
The music that will soothe the savage beast
Tame the wild eyes to pacify what lies beneath
While the lies upon the surface
Divide us into being conquered
And the longer we sleep
The longer they are growing stronger
That hunger for joy that’s inside us is shared
And we decide to deny it to some ‘cause we’re scared
But we are all people, alive under the sun
There are seven billion ways to live, choose one
[Verse 1]
We live in divisions and give in to limits on difference
Religion. Victims of fiction
Diminishing vision, conservatism
Interpreting meaning from words that were written
When some were forbidden their very existence
Unable to speak and of little interest
Those are the rules that are used against us
Those are the tools that police the defenseless
End this, find a design
Aligning the one with the ninety nine
It’s time. Implied divisions are lies
They’re meant to disguise the committing of crimes
But we are not blind, we are alive
We are survivors with ties that bind
Marginalized but the sun will rise
We will rise too if we open our eyes
And see that the world created for us
Makes it too easy for them to ignore us
And so they do
That hunger for joy that’s inside us is shared
And we decide to deny it to some ‘cause we’re scared
But we are all people, alive under the sun
There are seven billion ways to live, choose one
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Hermitofthewoods

Hermitofthewoods

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"Alive Under the Sun" appears on "Land of the Lotus Eaters" in 2013.

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