Pendulum Swinger

Album: Despite Our Differences (2006)
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  • I meet you for coffee
    We get together periodically and
    I got a bad case I can't shake off of me
    The fevered wanderin round wondering how it ought to be
    You work in the system
    You see possibilities and you're glistening
    Eyes show the hell you're gonna give 'em
    When they back off the mic for once and give it to a woman

    I dream like a mad one
    Brutal fantasies I catch as catch can
    I'm a psychic and a laywoman
    I see love and I like to make it happen
    What we get from your war walk
    The ticker of the nation breaking down like a bad clock
    I want the pendulum to swing again
    So that all your mighty mandate was just spitting in the wind

    It doesn't come by the bullwhip
    It's not persuaded with your hands on your hips
    It's not the company of gunslingers
    The epicenter love is the pendulum swinger
    She is she is she is

    It's fine about the old scroll Sanskrit
    Gnostic gospels the da vinci code a smash hit
    Aren't we dying just to read it and relate it
    Too hard just to go by a blind faith
    But they left out the sisters
    I've been praying to a father god so long I really missed her
    The goddess of benevolence
    You should listen to your mama if you have a lick of sense left

    Pushed under by the main press, buried under a code of dress
    Relegated by the Vatican
    But you can't keep a spirit down that wants to get up again

    If we're a drop in the bucket
    With just enough science to keep from saying fuck it
    Until the last drop of sun burns its sweet light
    Plenty revolutions left until we get this thing right

    2006 words and music: Emily Saliers
    Writer/s: AMY ELIZABETH RAY, EMILY ANN SALIERS
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Vanessa from Flint, MiA very cool song! I totally agree with the the criticism of politicians like Gee Dubya who strut around like macho idiots and do not seem to care about the lives lost in their stupid wars.

    Also, i am a Wiccan Pagan, so i can also identify with the critique of the patriarchal religions (Christianity, Judaism, and Islam) that deny the female deity (The Goddess) and (at least in their more conservative manifestations) can at times be EXTREMELY sexist and abusive towards women.
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