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Dead Ambassadors - The People Have The Power

from January 2023: Patti Smith by PRF Monthly Tribute Series

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I was dreaming in my dreaming
Of an aspect bright and fair
And my sleeping it was broken
But my dream, it lingered near
In the form of shining valleys
Where the pure air recognized
With my senses newly opened
I awakened to the cry

That the people have the power
To redeem the work of fools
From the meek the graces shower
It's decreed the people rule

The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power

Vengeful aspects become suspect
And bending low as if to hear
And the armies ceased advancing
Because the people had their ear
And the shepherds and the soldiers
Lay beneath among the stars
Exchanging visions and laying arms
To waste in the dust

In the form of shining valleys
Where the pure air recognized
And my senses newly opened
I awakened to the cry

The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power

Where there were deserts I saw fountains
Like cream the waters rise
And we strolled there together
With none to laugh or criticize
And the leopard and the lamb
Lay together truly bound
I was hoping in my hoping
To recall what I had found

I was dreaming in my dreaming
God knows a purer view
As I surrender to my sleeping
I commit a dream to you

The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power

To dream
To rule
To wrestle the world from fools
It's decreed the people rule
It's decreed the people rule

We have the power
We have the power
We have the power
We have the power

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from January 2023: Patti Smith, released January 31, 2023
Recorded, mixed and produced by T.C. Elliott for Pigsty Recordings

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