1959 lyrics

Artist	Patti Smith
Album(s)	Peace & Noise

Lyrics

(smith/shanahan)
(C)1997 druse music, inc./slea head music
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Listen to my story. got two tales to tell
One of fallen glory. one of vanity
The world's roof was raging, but we were looking fine;
'Cause we built that thing and it grew wings
In nineteen-fifty-nine

Wisdom was a teapot; pouring from above
Desolation angels
Served it up with love
Ignitin'[g strife] like every form of light
Then moved by bold design
Slid in that thing and it grew wings
In nineteen-fifty-nine

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It was blood, shining in the sun;
First: freedom!
Speeding the american claim:
Freedom; freedom; freedom; freedom!
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China was the tempest; ( and ) madness overflowed
( The ) lama was a young man
And ( he ) watched his world in flames
Taking glory down by the edge of clouds;
It was a cryin'( g ) shame
Another lost horizon. tibet the fallen star
Wisdom and compassion crushed, in the land of shangri-la
But in the land of the impala, honey, well
We were lookin' fine
'Cause we built that thing and it grew wings;
In nineteen-fifty-nine
'Cause we built that thing and it grew wings;
In nineteen-fifty-nine

It was the best of times, it's ( was ) the worst of times;
In 1959; 1959; 1959; 1959; 1959; 1959; 1959
It was the best of times; it was the worst of times
( In ) nineteen-fifty-nine

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