Emergency on Planet earth

Have you heard the news today?

People right across the world are pledging they will play the game

Victims of a modern world, circumstance has brought us here

Armageddon’s come too near, too, too near

Now foresight is the only key to save our children’s destiny

The consequences are so grave, the hypocrites we are their slaves





So my friends to stop the end, on each other we depend

Mountain high and river deep, stop it going on

We gotta wake this world up from its sleep

People, stop it going on, have you heard the news today?

Money’s on the menu in my favourite restaurant

Now don’t talk about quantity, there’s no fish left in the sea 



Greedy men been killing all the life there ever was

So you’d better play it nature’s way

Or she will take it all away

Don’t try and tell me you know more than her about right from wrong

Now you’ve upset the balance, man

Done the only thing you can

Now my life is in your hands, mountain high and river deep

Stop it going on, we gotta wake this world up from its sleep

Oh people, stop it going on

Everybody - don’t want no war

Cause we’re too young to die

So many people all around the world

Seen their brothers fry

What’s the motive in your madness?

You’ve made my people cry

So politicians: this time keep your distance

&quo;cause we’re too young to die





What’s the answer to our problems?

I think we’ve gone too high

Little children never said a word now

But still they have to die

It won’t be long, dancing like we do now

To put this sad world right

So don’t you worry

Suffer no more

’Cause we’re too young to die

You know we’re too young to die

You know we’re too young to die

You know we’re too young to die

You know we’re too young to die 



All gone when they drop the bomb

Can the politicians reassure?

Cause here I am presuming that

Nobody wants a war

There’s so many people praying

Just to find out if they’re staying

But lately stately governments

And disillusioned leaders

So full of empty promises

But rarely do they feed us

Put our backs against the wall

Or don’t we count at all?





Can you decide

Are you mesmerised?

Do you know which side you’re standing on?

Cause when it falls gonna take us all

Gotta know what we’re demanding

I never lie

Can’t you hear the cry

Coming from on high

WE’RE TOO YOUNG TO DIE

I’m so glad I got ya hooked up on my drug

Everybody dance to the music

Are you feeling well now you caught this bug

Everybody dance to the music

Think last time I took an overdose

Come on dance to the music

Made me realise I came too close

I bet ya wished you’d danced to the music music music music 



Death can seem to bear no relevance

Bet you wished you dance to the music

What you want to do is kill yourself

Still you don’t dance to the music

I can look at you and hear your scream

Come on dance to the music

And tell me that your needle’s clean

Come on dance dance 



Come on now dance to the music

Need it, I need it





Don’t you get hooked up

Cause music is the drug

Don’t you get hooked up

If I like it I just do it 



Say that we have all the time we need to make it right

Don’t hurry for nobody

If it ain’t the thing you like

Know your place and fit your space young man you will conform

I didn’t hear my soul express those rules when I was born

Cause I’m free to roam ’cause it’s my home

You can’t stop sweet inclination

The kids want the system breaking down

Not higher education

If it ain’t no natural law

Then you can keep your regulations

Cause if I like it I do it 



But I keep on movin’ though they wanna bring me down

I’ve gotta run for cover

And I keep on smiling

Though they wanna tie me down and give me death for the lover

And I keep on losing though I’m proving what I’m doing

I’m still groovin’ and if I like it I do it 



You’ve got to help those people break that legislation

We can overcome this suffocation

Execute your natural liberation

Happy to enjoy rejuvenation

All around hear the sound

No-one can stop us now

A thousand rules for plastic fools

Now they can take a bow

Surely there’s been time to see it dosn’t work by now

So if I like it I do it 



Still I

Keep on finding that they’re pushing those distorted visions

And I keep on living but I’m dying ’cause of their decisions

If I keep on looking I can find a higher space

I’m still groovin’ and if I like it I’ll do it

The kids need education

And the streets are never clean

I’ve seen a certain disposition prevailing in the wind

Sweet change if anybody’s listening?

Emergency on planet earth

Is that life that I am witnessing

Or just another wasted birth? 



We got emergency

Emergency on planet Earth





Think we’re standing for injustice

White gets two and black gets five years

Took me quite a while to suss this

But now I know my head is cleared

And a little boy in hungry land is just a picture in the news

Won’t see him in that tv advertising ’cause it might put you off your food 



We got emergency

Emergency on planet Earth

If I pick it up, can I put it down

Whatever it is I just can’t stop

For only 20 seconds at a time it’s all mine

I got too much pressure

Got me under its thumb

And it’s no fun you can lose

Now I got a choice but I can’t choose

Insistent as you are

Is no guarantee that you’ll go far

Rock steady if you can

But I’ve never been a steady man

People wanna shoot you down

If you can’t swim then you will drown

In sorrow

Can’t get no medical attention till tomorrow

Sadlands are where I live

But that’s none of your business

You keep asking and soon enough

The kids gonna have to get rough

Maybe I’m a speed king

Push with the foot and I’m smiling

I can glide on the love inside

And there was you thinking that my hands were tied

All along I saw you hoping

I would slip and I’m not joking

The evidence in these events

Is still your lack of common sense

Did you really think that I would sink

Because I like another drink

Have to get up to get down

The remedy is in the sound

Absurdity of your suggestion

Leaves me asking just one question

If you are my friend today?

Why do you wanna hear me say? 



If I pick it up can I put it down

Whatever it is I just can’t stop

Love ya

I need ya

I think I wanna squeeze ya

Nightly, so tightly, girl you know you really blow my mind 



Say it again

Just one more time

I’ve got to know

How you came to blow my mind

Closer 



Pleasure, passion

Tonite’s the night I’m looking for your action

I want to hold you

Don’t you know this time you blow my mind

Say it again

Just one more time

I’ve got to know

How you came to blow my mind

Closer 



Fever, hot now

Help me wipe the sweat away from my brow

Sexy

Oh lady

Don’t you know this time you blow my mind 



Oh don’t you know yeah

Don’t you know by now that now you blow my mind

Oh yes you do oh yes you do

Oh yes you blow my mind

You’ve got to stand up, stay strong, start movin’ in the right direction

Don’t wait too long for people promising divine intervention

19 nine three now I’m taking matters into my own hands

So fast I can’t see

A revolution is the only way that we can change change change

I wanna fight the power





Well it’s hard times white lines kids of nine gettin’ down with gun crime

War zones no homes ain’t it time we gave the dog a bone

Say brothers sisters step up and put yourself in the picture

This time you know a revolution if the only way that we can change change change

I want to fight the power





Question answer shake your hand and smile for the camera

But it’s no good you should spend time in your neighbourhood

Where black kids white kids

Now you’re working overtime to be a crack kid

No job no cash a revolution is the only way that we can change change change

I wanna fight the power





Still we don’t seem to understand we need a revolution

Everybody wants a revolution





Who is this man I’m having trouble finding out where I’m coming from

Preconceptions it’s eternal human infection one chance

Learn how you’re gonna change the habit of a lifetime my soul concerned

That revolution is the only way that we can change change change

I wanna fight the power





Higher higher now we’re gonna learn to fight the power

Sunshine new day I only know how to get the right way

Faster stronger I help my brother and my soul lives longer

Blinded I can’t see

That revolution is the only way that we can change change change

I wanna fight the power





No doubt in time everything is sweet sunshine

But in the meantime mankind is having trouble where to draw the line

We still don’t respect and yet I thought we had intellect

Sometimes I think the music is the only hope we have for revolution





Still we don’t seem to understand we need a revolution

Everybody needs a revolution