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Wake Up
03:58
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Wake Up (people)
Words and music by Richard Aljinovic
Verse:
- Wake up people, before you lose your heads.
Can’t you see where we’re going, let’s make a mends.
Wasting this, using that, when’s it going to end?
We’ll be kings of the castle, with nothing to spend.
Chorus:
Crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy, it’s doing my head.
People walking around, like the living dead!
Crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy, it’s doing my head.
Wake up people! It’s time we start to mend.
Life, before it ends.
Verse:
- We let the players, rule our lives.
We give away our power, and that’s not right.
Be they leaders of countries or business.
Wake up people! Their using us, calling it success!
Chorus:
Crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy, it’s doing my head.
People walking around, like the living dead!
Crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy, it’s doing my head.
Wake up people! It’s time we start to mend.
Life, before it ends.
Verse:
- Peaceful revolution, is what it takes.
Wake up to the power of the masses, then we can’t fail.
Say no, to the greed and the violence that prevails.
If we say no together, it’s got to change.
Chorus:
Crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy, it’s doing my head.
People walking around, like the living dead!
Crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy, it’s doing my head.
Wake up people! It’s time we start to mend.
Life, before it ends.
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2. |
I Wish You
03:14
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I Wish You
Words and music by Richard Aljinovic
Chorus
I wish you joy,
I wish you happiness and I wish you love
Verse 1:
Oh you pretty little thing you learned to shut it down
Just like so many the world seems to let down
You buried away the thing that gives such joy
Don't go losing your love you'll slowly be destroyed
Chorus
I wish you joy,
I wish you happiness and I wish you love
Verse 2
Don't go worrying about things you cannot change
Don't let them take your life, blame them and keep the rage
It's your choice to give they cannot take
The power of love to give joy and happiness
Chorus
I wish you joy,
I wish you happiness and I wish you love
Verse 3
A man can't live on love, but without it he's so lost
It's so important to keep it shining at any cost
Let love take your life and give you strength
Spread the love and joy, sharing the happiness
Chorus
I wish you joy,
I wish you happiness and I wish you love
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3. |
Stand Proud
04:18
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Verse:
- I’ve been beaten! I’ve been laid to the floor.
They’re all hoping, I can’t take no more.
I won’t let the man, come drag me down.
If it’s war he wants, I can go twelve rounds.
Chorus:
Boy look up, don’t you ever look down.
Girl look up, don’t you ever look down.
People look up, don’t you ever look down.
Cause you’re finding your own way,
don’t let another man lead you astray and pull you down.
Verse:
- Selfish politicians, letting us down!
Bankers getting all rich, pushing us around!
Insurer man, he wants to rule our lives.
It’s a call to us, if they want a fight.
Chorus:
Boy look up, don’t you ever look down.
Girl look up, don’t you ever look down.
People look up, don’t you ever look down.
Cause you’re finding your own way,
don’t let another man lead you astray and pull you down.
Verse:
- When will we learn, we have the power to fight.
They need control of the masses, to use us right.
Well I won’t play, it’s time we use our might.
People get together, we’re going to fight.
Chorus:
Boy look up, Don’t you ever look down.
Girl look up, don’t you ever look down.
People look up, don’t you ever look down.
No, No violence ain’t the way,
don’t let another man lead you astray and pull you down.
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4. |
Revolutionaries
03:19
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Revolutionaries
Words and music by Richard Aljinovic
Verse 1:
Where the children revolution be gone to, where have the children revolution be gone.
Where the children revolution be gone to, we’re all alone.
They promised us a world of peace, they promised us a world that’s green and at ease.
They promised us so many things; it’s hard to find just what they did.
I tell you that they’ve sold their souls, they’ve gone all corporate
and out of control.
Those hippie children cut all their hair, they're riding their Mercs with petrol in the air.
Chorus:
They wave their hippie banners in the air, hug trees like a love affair. Smoked all the shit they could find; now they just don’t care.
They fought against the war in 'Nam, now they sell their weapons to Iran.
Making money hand over fist, what ever happened to the pacifists.
Verse 2:
Where the children revolution be gone to, where have the children revolution be gone.
Where the children revolution be gone to, we‘re all alone.
They promised us harmony with the trees, all they could give us was their greed disease.
People let go for the bottom line, they want their dividends right on time.
Those revolutionary children have changed their names, from Rainbow and Petal to the Exxon Valdez.
Can’t fool the children of the revolution, T-Rex was wrong now they're
a part of the pollution.
Chorus:
They wave their hippie banners in the air, hug trees like a love affair.
Smoked all the shit they could find; now they just don’t care.
They fought against the war in 'Nam, now they sell their weapons to Iran.
They’re making money hand over fist, what ever happened to the pacifists.
Outro:
It’s sad, promises gone bad.
Yes it’s sad, promises gone bad.
Where the children revolution be gone to,
where have the children revolution be gone.
Where the children revolution be gone to,
We’re all alone.
We’re all alone.
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If loving you is wrong I don't wanna be right
If being right means being without you
I'd rather live a wrong doing life
Your mama and daddy say it's a shame
It's a downright disgrace
Long as I got you by my side
I don't care what your people say
Your friends tell you there's no future
in loving a married man
If I can't see you when I want to
I'll see you when I can
If loving you is wrong I don't wanna be right
If loving you is wrong I don't wanna be right
Am I wrong to fall so deeply in love with you
knowing I got a wife and two little children
depending on me too
And am I wrong to hunger
for the gentleness of your touch
knowing I got somebody else at home
who needs me just as much
And are you wrong to fall in love
with a married man
And am I wrong trying to hold on
to the best thing I ever had
If loving you is wrong I don't wanna be right
If loving you is wrong I don't wanna be right
Are you wrong to give your love
to a married man
And am I wrong trying to hold on
to the best thing I ever had
If loving you is wrong I don't wanna be right
If loving you is wrong I don't wanna be right
I don't wanna be right
if it means sleeping alone at night
I don't wanna be right
if it means coming home at night
I don't wanna, I don't wanna
I don't wanna never, never, never be right
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6. |
Who Are You?
02:36
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Verse:
You had a facade, of angelic hews.
But then I felt the demons in you.
Where’s the person that I once knew?
Chorus:
You poisoned my mind, you played me like I was blind.
But I don’t know where you’ve come from, but you’re not the person I fell for,
You planned it to a tee, you used your ass to seduce me.
You tried to rule my life, you succeeded and now I’m in constant strife.
Verse:
You rode me rough, you did my head.
I feel like you took my shot gun, and blew off my head.
And now you show no remorse.
Chorus:
You poisoned my mind, you played me like I was blind.
But I don’t know where you’ve come from, but you’re not the person I fell for,
You planned it to a tee, you used your ass to seduce me.
You tried to rule my life, you succeeded and now I’m in constant strife.
Outro:
Strife, I’m in constant strife.
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7. |
Call It Stormy Monday
04:54
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They call it stormy Monday, but Tuesday's just as bad
They call it stormy Monday, but Tuesday's just as bad
Wednesday's worse, and Thursday's also sad
Yes the eagle flies on Friday, and Saturday I go out to play
Eagle flies on Friday, and Saturday I go out to play
Sunday I go to church, then I kneel down and pray
Lord have mercy, Lord have mercy on me
Lord have mercy, my heart's in misery
Crazy about my baby, yes, send her back to me
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Soul Messengers Sydney, Australia
"Soul Messengers’ sound is deeply rooted in soul, R&B and funk. It’s a sound that’s simultaneously dirty and luxurious."
Huffington Post
Soul Messengers, are a Sydney based Soul and RnB band. They have released 3 studio albums, with 2017’s Vision & Faith reaching #5 on the Australian Blues and Roots Airplay chart. Their previous albums also garnered great reviews and nationwide radio play.
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