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there's a lot of rock and roll
be-bop wishing in the world
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...LYRICS...
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posted 10.12.02
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Happy Dia de la Raza!
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- Urban Chicano Protest Folk Love Songs and More
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More than all of this Interstate Crying for home I will dare to dream You want it This is for New York Not alone Preso politico Hold out your arms
- More than all of this
- by Victor Payan
- there's a lot of rock and roll be-bop wishing in the world
- there's a lot of rock and roll be-bop wishing in the world
- And it's set to overflow peaceful visions on the world
- Yes it's set to overflow dreams and kisses on the world
- let them swirl
- there's a lot of heart and souls lost and lonely in the world
- and they're being bought and sold by everything phony in the world
- like visa, mastercard, coca cola and sony in the world
- environmental disregard and nuclear poisoning of the world
- don't ever be afraid to say what you really feel
- and don't ever hesitate when you hear someone say please
- please help me
- there's a lot of rock and roll be-bop wishing in the world
- there's a lot of rock and roll be-bop wishing in the world
- And it's set to overflow peaceful visions on the world
- Yes it's set to overflow dreams and kisses on the world
- And I know it's gonna take more than all of this to save the world
- And I know it's gonna take more than all of this to save the world
- But we've every color flag for every color boy and girl
- Every color flag for all the children to unfurl
- Let them swirl
- don't ever be afraid to say what you really feel
- and don't ever hesitate when you hear someone say please
- please help me
- © 1999 Victor Payan
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- I Will Dare to Dream
- by Victor Payan
- I will dare to dream of revolution
- and I will dare to question your solution
- and I will sing a song
- for hope to ride upon
- when the world is sick of your illusion
- a song for all the hungry ones who need us
- a song for all the memories that feed us
- a song to make us long
- for the time when we were strong
- a song to slay the dragons that defeat us
- I will sing a song for all the young ones
- a song to face the teargas and the truncheons
- a song of love and rage
- to turn the other page
- a song for all the innocent in dungeons
- I will sing a song of joy and freedom
- a song to sing to the broken when you meet 'em
- a song to fill the soul
- with a heart that makes you whole
- a song to sing out to fascists when you beat 'em
- I will sing a song for all the needy
- a song to fight the powerful and greedy
- a song where we can say
- we will be free someday
- and all the people sing this song out freely
- I will dare to dream of revolution
- and I will dare to question your solution
- and I will sing a song
- for hope to ride upon
- when the world is sick of your delusion
- © 2002 Victor Payan
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- Not Alone
- by Victor Payan
- No not the government
- No not the establishment
- No not the president
- Not you and me alone
- We're not alone
- No not the government
- No not the establishment
- No not the president
- Not you and me alone
- We're not alone
- You know there aint no superman
- Nor a faith that's greater than
- The power of love in the common man
- When he does not stand alone
- You're not alone
- No not the government
- No not the establishment
- No not the president
- Not you and me alone
- We're not alone
- ©1997 Victor Payan
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- Interstate
- by Victor Payan
- does a mountain know what it means
- to amount to more than a hill of beans?
- does the ocean stop for a minute to think
- about everything we put in the kitchen sink?
- there's a smile on your face
- as you run on the interstate without love
- can a bird forget to fly if he wanted to?
- can a snail hide from the dew?
- can a man truly believe
- what he knows to be untrue?
- there's a smile on your face
- as you run on the interstate without love
- if you just give me half a chance to be free
- the things we could do together you and me
- but you're so unhappy
- you just can't see
- there's a smile on your face
- as you run on the interstate without love
- If I could just ask for anything at all
- I would ask for the sun to never fall
- as we walk down the street
- babe, we wouldn't miss a beat
- there's a smile on your face
- as you run on the interstate without love
- can a bird forget to fly if he wanted to?
- can a snail hide from the dew?
- can a man truly believe
- what he knows to be untrue?
- there's a smile on your face
- as you run on the interstate without love
- ©1997 Victor Payan
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- You Want It
- by Victor Payan
- if it's cold
- you want it
- and if it's gold
- you want it
- if it's old
- you want it
- and if you have to sell your soul
- you want it
- something you can buy
- you want it
- if it makes you high
- you want it
- someone has to die
- you want it
- and if it burns a hole in the sky
- you want it
- but that's not me
- I'm living on dreams
- that's not me
- I'm living on dreams
- and if it sells
- you want it
and if it smells- you want it
- cover it with bells
- you want it
and if it belongs to somebody else- you want it
- if it makes you blind
you want it- makes you lose mind
- you want it
- cover up a crime
- you want it
- and if it's something you can't find
- you want it
- but that's not me
- I'm living on dreams
- that's not me
- I'm living on dreams
- ©2002 Victor Payan
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- Preso Politico
- by Victor Payan
- entra la paz
- a este pais
- que se salga el sol
- tras este cielo de gris
- fin de terror
- fin de tristeza
- fin del horror
- de un gobierno que represa
- preso politico
- preso politico
- preso politico
- apachurado por
- ser pobre y hablar
- encadenado por
- el crimen de pensar
- preso politico
- preso politico
- preso politico
- en cada celda y
- desde cada pueblito
- el negro silencio
- se rompe con el grito
- preso politico
- preso politico
- preso politico
- ©2000 Victor Payan
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- Crying for Home
- by Victor Payan
- through all of our workaday years
- the greedy get rich from our toil
- and they grind us together like gears
- in a tin man that's begging for oil
- and they keep us apart with fears
- that the fruit in the valley will spoil
- and they butter us up with promises
- like lobsters on the boil
- ho now Moses
- do I hear you crying for home?
- 'cause this aint the land of the free anymore
- and I don't like where it's goin'
- and you try to keep up your head
- everytime they get you down
- and you think you got 'em licked until
- the cops kick you to the ground
- and you hide when they round up your neighbors
- red black poor yellow and brown
- and you think you're free from the ovens
- til the gas bill comes around
- ho now Moses
- do I hear you crying for home?
- 'cause this aint the land of the free anymore
- and I don't like where it's goin'
- when you tell them you'll sing til you're sore
- they tell you don't waste your breath
- cause they know you can sing them away
- they know, and it scares them to death
- they know you can change the world
- if you just give it a try
- cause if an ant can climb a mountain
- then so can you and I
- ho now Moses
- do I hear you crying for home?
- 'cause this aint the land of the free anymore
- and I don't like where it's goin'
- © 2000 Victor Payan
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- This is for New York
- by Victor Payan
- this is for New York
- and El Salvador
- for the mountains of Chiapas
- and the ghosts of Ecuador
- this is for New York
- and also for Peru
- and for Guatemala
- and for Chile, too
- don't forget me, my darling
- don't forget me, my dear
- the government might try to erase me
- but the truth...the truth is always near
- it is here
this is for New York- for the lost ones in Brasil
- and for Argentina
- where they are missing still
- this is for New York
- for those dying in the sand
- for the lady on the island
- with the fire in her hand
- don't forget me, my darling
- don't forget me, my dear
- the government might try to erase me
- but the truth...the truth is always near
it is here- this is for New York
- for those dying in the sand
- for the lady on the island
- with the fire in her hand
- this is for New York
- © 2002 Victor Payan
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- Hold out your arms to the ocean
- (the broken-hearted exile's song)
- by Victor Payan
- hold out your arms to the ocean
- hold out your arms to the sea
- and hope with your heart against hoping
- return to the arms of me
- I'd hold you as I'd hold the ocean
- I'd hold you as I'd hold the sea
- like two broken hearts come unbroken
- returned from the arms of the sea
- I'd whisper you your psalms of the ocean
- I'd sing you my songs of the sea
- like rivers our true hearts would burst open
- to linger and while away free
- I'd stare into the heart of the ocean
- I'd sail into the heart of the sea
- a sad distant thunder cloud approaching
- returns to the arms of the sea
- hold out your arms to the ocean
- and hold out your arms to the sea
- and hope with your heart against hoping
- return to the arms of thee
- © 2002 Victor Payan
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- all lyrics copyright © Victor Payan. for permission to reprint, email vpayan@flyingserpent.net. posted October 12, 2002.