Shine Over Babylon Lyrics - Detours - Sheryl Crow

I walked the heat of seven hills 

Endless talk of losing wills 

Great highways in a constant melt 

Men and women and children all have overbuilt 

Buying bread and paying for none 

Creatures of a waning sun 

Teacher's hands are overrun 

Clowns and gypsies have all but gone 

You make me wanna 

Shine over Babylon 

You make me wanna 

Shine over Babylon 

Freedoms etched on Sacred pillars 

Hollow stones of mindless filler 

Can lead to madman oil drillers 

Won't be long before we all are killers 

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Little boy lost way up the mountains 

Cities drowning under boiling fountains 

I dreamed of chilly, sunlit days 

I was trembling in a golden haze 

You make me wanna 

Shine over Babylon 

You make me wanna 

Shine over Babylon 

Celebrate the golden cow 

Praise the bloated bank account 

If there's a god where is he now 

The precipice is slipping further out 

Sanskrit message from the mounts 

Leave your possession, hope abounds 

There's nothing here for you to cry about 

We're all just followers from here on out 

I take the stage, I walk the planks 

I sing these songs with little thanks 

I wait for shouts from crazy cranks 

I stand amidst the brown shirt ranks 

I found my way to alexandria 

Where gurus bubble up on gangea 

Scavengers, they run up and hand ya 

All the junk that should have damned ya 

You make me wanna 

Shine over Babylon 

You make me wanna 

Shine over Babylon 

If everything in life was free 

You'd float in your own reverie 

The things that you could never see 

seal the gap between you and me 

You make me wanna 

Shine over Babylon 

You make me wanna 

Shine over Babylon