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How To Stay Alive

How To Stay Alive lyrics by Gong. Let the song man spin it It began at the beginning Was a sweet green planet Nothing on it, nothing to it, nothing in it,...

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How To Stay Alive

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Let the song man spin it

It began at the beginning

Was a sweet green planet

Nothing on it, nothing to it, nothing in it,

Nothing to do with the planet as we know it

It's a planet coming to you but you don't know if its there

Maybe its here, maybe there

Check it underneath the milky way

Right beside the southern cross

I don't think so!

You just can't see it but it ain’t going away

They coming down from a planet

So far, so near

That's where it all began

That music you hear

It happened to remind me of a long long story

About a visit from the stars, some old babas

Professor paradox sent the octave docs

Those time doctors on space guitars

Those wise avatars from a distant star

They have watched us

(Take me to your leaders!)

We assume the position of possession

And the time will come

When the star men arrive

In 2032 they'll be looking at you

They're coming down to earth

And it's been so long

So very very long ago

When play last end

To come down here

To show us what we need to know

How to survive without killing the planet

How to survive without killing the planet?

(We need to know!)

It's a planet coming to you but you don't know if its there

Maybe its here, maybe there

Check it underneath the milky way

Right beside the southern cross

I don't think so!

You just can't see it but it ain’t going away

It’s a singing and a ringing out

This is where we’re coming from

This is where that we belong

This is where it all began

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