World Citizen (I Won't Be Dissapointed); Jazz from Hell
Ryuichi Sakamoto - World Citizen (I Won't Be Dissapointed)
What happened here?
The butterfly has lost its wings
The air’s too thick to breathe
And there’s something in the drinking water.
The sun comes up
The sun comes up and you’re alone
Your sense of purpose come undone
The traffic tails back to the maze on 101
And the news from the sky
Is looking better for today
In every single way
But not for you
World citizen
World citizen
It’s not safe
All the yellow birds are sleeping
Cos the air’s not fit for breathing
It’s not safe
Why can’t we be
Without beginning, without end?
Why can’t we be?
World citizen
World citizen
And if I stop
And talk with you awhile
I’m overwhelmed by the scale
Of everything you feel
The lonely inner state emergency
I want to feel
Until my heart can take no more
And there’s nothing in this world I wouldn’t give
I want to break
The indifference of the days
I want a conscience that will keep me wide awake
I won’t be disappointed
I won’t be disappointed
I won’t be.
I saw a face
It was a face I didn’t know
Her sadness told me everything about my own
Can’t let it be
When least expected there she is
Gone the time and space that separates us
And I’m not safe
I think I need a second skin
No, I’m not safe
World citizen
World citizen
I want to travel by night
Across the steppes and over seas
I want to understand the cost
Of everything that’s lost
I want to pronounce all their names correctly
World citizen
World citizen
I won’t be disappointed
I won’t be.
She doesn’t laugh
We’ve gone from comedy to commerce
And she doesn’t feel the ground she walks upon
I turn away
And I’m not sleeping well at night
And while I know this isn’t right
What can you do?
David Sylvian/Ryuichi Sakamoto
World Citizen
There goes one baby's life
It's such a small amount
She's un-American
I guess it doesn't count Six thousand children's lives
Were simply thrown away Lost without medicine
Inside of thirty days In the New York harbour
Where the stock's with held
It was the price we paid For a safer world
World is suffering World is suffering
World is suffering World citizen
In Madhya Pradesh Where they're building dams
They're displacing native people
From their homes and lands
So they hunger strike
'Cause they believe they count
To lose a single life Is such a small amount
In the name of progress And democracy
The concepts represented in name only
His world is suffering Her world is suffering
Their world is suffering World citizen
And the buildings fall In a cloud of dust
And we ask ourselves How could they hate us?
Well, when we live in ignorance and luxury
While our super powers practice Puppet mastery
We raise the men Who run the fascist states
And we sell them arms So they maintain their place
We turn our backs On the things they done
Their human rights record And the guns they run
My world is suffering Your world is suffering
Our world is suffering World citizen
Who'll do away with flags? Who'll do us proud?
Remove the money from their pockets
Scream dissent out loud?
'Cause God ain't on our side The shoe won't fit
And though they think the war is won
That's not the last of it
Disenfranchised people Need their voices heard
And if no one stops to listen Lose their faith in words
And violence rises When all hope is lost
Who'll embrace the human spirit
And absorb the cost?
Not one life is taken In my name In my name
My world is suffering Your world is suffering
Our world is suffering World citizen
Not one life is taken In my name World citizen
His world is suffering Her world is suffering
Their world is suffering Our world is suffering
World Citizen
Jazz from Hell
from Jazz from Hell (1986)
