Artist/Band:
John Lennon
Lyrics for Song: Attica State
Lyrics for Album: Lennon - Signature Box [2010]
-"it is my pleasure and privilige at this very very solumn moment
to introduce a young man and his wife.
Who saw fit to put down in music
and lyrics
so that it will never be forgotten
in our country,
by anyone,
the tragedy of Attica State.
There's no more that I can say, ladies and gentlemen. I would like to introduce to you John and Yoko Lennon."
(Hello, hello)
-"i'd just like to say, it's an honour and a pleasure to be here at the
apollo and for the reasons we're all here.
This song, yoko and I wrote, is called 'Attica State'"
One, two, three, four!
What a waste of human power,
What a waste of human lives.
Shoot the pris'ners in the towers,
Forty-three poor widowed wives.
Attica state, attica state,
We're all mates with attica state.
Media blames it on the pris'ners,
But the pris'ners did not kill.
"rockefeller pulled the trigger,"
That is what the people feel.
Attica state, attica state,
We're all mates with attica state.
Free the pris'ners, jail the judges,
Free all pris'ners ev'rywhere.
All they need is truth and justice,
All the want is love and care.
Attica state, attica state,
We're all mates with attica state.
They all live in suffocation,
Let's not watch them die in sorrow.
Now's the time for revolution,
Give them all a chance to grow.
Attica state, attica state,
We're all mates with attica state.
Come together, join the movement,
Take a stand for human rights.
Fear and hatred clouds our judgement,
Free us all from endless night.
Attica state, attica state,
We're all mates with attica state.
Attica state, attica state,
We all live in attica state.
Attica state, attica state,
Attica, attica, attica state.
-"thank you, aah, thank you, thank you, aah, some of you, eh, wonder what
I'm doinG here with no drummers and no nothin' like that.
Well, you might know I lost my me old band, or I left it. I'm puttin' a, I'm
puttin' an elecric band together, it's not ready yet.
Ah, things like this keep comin' up so, I just have to busk it. so I'm gonna
sing you a song now you might know
It's called 'imagine'"
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