Party Of God-Natalie Merchant/Billy Bragg

[ti:Party Of God] [ar:Natalie Merchant] [al:Retrospective 1990-2005 (Ltd. Deluxe Version)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Party Of God (Remastered Version) - Natalie Merchant/Billy Bragg [00:22.56]In a busy street [00:24.79]A man sits down [00:26.62]Oblivious to the traffic sounds [00:29.92]No chaos [00:31.04]No frenzied shrieking crowd [00:33.45] [00:33.96]Thank God their silence [00:35.92]Walking heads bent down [00:38.62] [00:39.93]Come when they saw us [00:41.39]Called it lethargy [00:42.95] [00:44.98]The treadmill turns [00:46.76]There down below their feet [00:49.75] [00:51.83]Should I pray [00:53.20]For an end to come [00:54.96] [00:56.05]Quickly quickly [00:57.80]Quickly quickly [00:59.62]Or cross the waves [01:01.35]Of an angry sea [01:03.52]Risking risking [01:04.96]And braving braving [01:06.76]The shipwreck and the [01:08.81]Mutiny assailing assailing [01:11.35] [01:18.11]In a haunted doorway [01:20.02]And from the light of day [01:21.66]See another life [01:22.92]Fall to ruin in pain [01:24.77] [01:25.32]False smiles from [01:26.44]Even children it seems [01:28.49] [01:29.22]Landlocked ground [01:30.88]For empty and lost dreams [01:34.32]A league against me [01:36.02]I hear him say [01:37.82] [01:39.74]It's not worth half the effort [01:43.52]Or the price you pay [01:45.22] [01:46.96]Should I pray [01:48.21]For an end to come [01:51.07]Quickly quickly [01:52.97]Quickly quickly [01:54.39]Or should I raise my [01:55.71]Face to the Heavens above [01:58.05]And tell God dear God [02:00.13]Stop jeering and jeering [02:01.57]As our human frailties [02:03.01]And all our failings [02:04.43]Are we failing [02:05.57]Pound pound on [02:06.79] [02:13.25]An endless street [02:16.89]Again and again [02:18.69]The nightmare scene [02:20.32]All strained against [02:22.50]The tightened rope [02:24.11]Not one with a [02:25.85]Lasting lingering hope [02:29.32]There's evidence [02:30.93]Everywhere you see [02:32.79] [02:34.66]Put a quarter down [02:36.51]At the newsstand [02:37.63] [02:38.22]So that you can read [02:40.01] [02:41.83]Should I pray [02:43.19]For an end to come [02:46.07]Quickly quickly [02:47.79]Quickly quickly [02:49.43]Or should I raise my [02:50.76]Face to the clouds above [02:52.83]Entreating entreating [02:54.93]Their mercy some mercy [02:56.53]But as clouds will do [02:58.00]They'll rain down [03:00.26]First gently gently [03:02.10]And sweetly so sweetly [03:04.04]Until they silence me [03:06.25]With a burst of thunder [03:08.60]Thunder and lightning and lightning [03:11.17]And helpless landlocked screaming [03:13.60]I know god must be agreeing [03:17.22] [03:18.04]It's the worst part of watching [03:20.76] [03:21.58]It's the worst part of watching [03:24.34] [03:25.29]It's the worst part of watching [03:28.07] [03:28.99]It's the worst part [03:30.81] [03:37.42]Landlocked in screaming [03:39.63] [03:40.35]God must be agreeing [03:42.49] [03:43.40]To be helpless is the worst [03:46.84] [03:50.34]Must be the worst part of watching [03:53.68] [03:58.99]The worst part of watching