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Intro

A RIFF

 Picture a bright blue ball just spinning spinning free,Dizzy with eternity

 Painted with a skin of sky brush in some clouds and sea

 Call it home to you and me

 A peaceful place or so it looks from space.

 A closer look reveals the human race

 Full of hope full of grace is the human face

 But afraid we may lay our home to waste

 There's a fear down hear we can't forget. Hasn't got a name just yet

 Always awake always around, singing' ashes ashes all fall down

 Now watch the ball revolves as the nighttime falls

 And again the hunt begins, and again the blood wind calls

 By and by again, the morning sun will rise.

 But the darkness never goes from some men's eyes

 It strolls the sidewalks and it rolls the streets

 Staking turf dividing up meat

 Nightmare spook peace of heat, you and me, you and me

 Flash switch blade in the ghetto night. Rudies looking for a fight

 Ratcat alley roll them bones, need that cash to feed that jones

 And the politicians throwing stones

 Singing ashes ashes all fall down. Ashes ashes all fall down

 Commissars and pinstripe bosses roll the dice.

 Anyway they fall guess who gets to pay the price?

 Money green or proletarian grey, selling guns instead of food today

 So the kids they dance and shake their bones

 And the politicians throwing stones

 Singing ashes ashes all fall down. Ashes Ashes all fall down.

 Heartless powers try to tell us what to think

 If the spirit's sleeping then the flesh is ink

 History's page will be neatly carved in stone

 The future's here, we are it, we are on our own. A D A JAM

 If the game is lost, then we're all the same.

 No one left to place or take the blame

 We will leave this place an empty stone

 Or a shining ball of blue we can call our home

 So the kids they dance and shake their bones

 And the politicians throwing stones.

 Singing ashes ashes all fall down. Ashes ashes all fall down

Shipping powders back and forth.

Singing black goes south and white comes north

And the whole world full of petty wars.

Singing I got mine and you got yours

While the latest fashions set the pace.

Lose your step fall out of grace

The radical he rant and rage.

Singing someone got to turn the page

And the rich man in his summer home.

Singing just leave well enough alone.

But his pants are down, his covers blown.

And the politicians throwing stones

So the kids they dance and shake their bones

Cause it's all too clear we're on our own

Singing ashes ashes all fall down, Ashes ashes all fall down

 Picture a bright blue ball just spinning spinning free.

 It's dizzying, the possibilities. Ashes ashes all fall down ....