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4 Non Blondes
Whats UP?
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A new world is over me
So I’ll reach UP to the sky
And pretend that I’m a
Spaceman
4 Non Blondes
Spaceman
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Twenty-five years and my life is still
Trying to get up that great big hill of hope
For a destination
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You don’t mean nothing
if you don’t do nothing
You’re just waiting at the
bottom of the hill
You don’t mean nothing
if you don’t do nothing
You’re just standing still
Ringo Starr
Standing Still
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I realized quickly when I knew I should
That the world was made up
of this brotherhood of man
For whatever that means…
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Now take it in but don’t look down
Imagine Dragons
On top of the world
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“Whats UP?“
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It all will fall,
fall right into place
Modest Mouse
Gravity Rides Everything
But that’s what makes the
world go round
The ups and downs a carousel
Changing people’s heads around
The Stylistics
People Make the World Go Round
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You make the change
You rearrange me till I’m sane
You lock the door
And throw away the key
And there’s someone in my head
but it’s not me
Pink Floyd
Brain Damage
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Her green plastic watering can
For her fake Chinese rubber plant
In the fake plastic earth
Radiohead
Fake Plastic Trees
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My fake plants died
because I did not pretend to water them.
Mitch Hedberg
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Up and down
And in the end it’s only
round ‘n round
Pink Floyd
Us and Them
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It’s about being prepared to lose
what you have for what you might get,
or what you are for what you might be.
It’s about letting go. 1
Peter Gabriel
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No longer ridin’ on the
merry-go-round
I just had to let it go
John Lennon
Watching the Wheels
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Yeah, the world would swing
if I were king
Tom Petty
It’s Good to be King
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Back to the earth, I feel it.
Rusted Root
Back to the Earth
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The truth is never far behind
You’ve kept it hidden well
Madonna
Live to Tell
References:
- Without Frontiers: The Life & Music of Peter Gabriel By Daryl Easlea
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4 Non Blondes – What’s Up (Official Music Video)
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Hope I live to tell the secret
I have learned
till then, it will burn inside of me
Madonna
Live to Tell