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David Sylvian
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David Sylvian World Citizen

World Citizen (2003)

  1. World Citizen (Short Version)
  2. World Citizen - I Won't Be Disappointed (Short Version)
  3. World Citizen (Long Version)
  4. World Citizen - I Won't Be Disappointed (Long Version)
  5. World Citizen (Ryoji Ikeda Remix)

World Citizen

  1. World Citizen (Short Version)

    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 withheld
    It was the price we paid
    For a safer world

    World is suffering
    World is suffering
    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

    His world is suffering
    Her world is suffering
    Their world is suffering
    World citizen

    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?

    Cos 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

    Not one life is taken
    In my name
    In my name

    His world is suffering
    Her world is suffering
    Their world is suffering
    World citizen

    My world is suffering
    Your world is suffering
    Our world is suffering
    World citizen

    Not one life is taken
    In my name
    In my name

    Not one life is taken
    In my name
    In my name

    Not one life is taken
    In my name
    In my name

  2. World Citizen - I Won't Be Disappointed (Short Version)

    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 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?

  3. World Citizen (Long Version)

    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 withheld
    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
    Cos 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

    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

    His world is suffering
    Her world is suffering
    Their world is suffering
    World citizen

    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?

    Cos 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

    His world is suffering
    Her world is suffering
    Their world is suffering
    World citizen

    My world is suffering
    Your world is suffering
    Our world is suffering
    World citizen

    Not one life is taken
    In my name
    In my name

    World citizen
    World citizen

    World citizen
    World citizen

    His world is suffering
    Her world is suffering
    Their world is suffering
    Our world is suffering

    World citizen

    World citizen

    World citizen

  4. World Citizen - I Won't Be Disappointed (Long Version)

    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?

  5. World Citizen (Ryoji Ikeda Remix)

    In my name
    In my name
    Not one life is taken

    In my name
    In my name
    Not one life is taken

    In my name
    In my name
    Not one life is taken

    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 withheld
    It was the price we paid
    For a safer world

    World is suffering
    World is suffering
    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

    His world is suffering
    Her world is suffering
    Their world is suffering
    World citizen

    My world is suffering
    Your world is suffering
    Our world is suffering
    World citizen

    His world is suffering
    Her world is suffering
    Their world is suffering
    World citizen

    My world is suffering
    Your world is suffering
    Our world is suffering
    World citizen
    World citizen
    World citizen

    World citizen

    World citizen

    His world is suffering

    Her world is suffering

    Their world is suffering

    Our world is suffering

    World citizen
    World citizen

    World citizen