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Artist: Larry Norman
Canonical path: /larry-norman/turn
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Turn
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Turn
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From my bedroom window I can see someone's torn a huge whole in the sky
The sun's violet rays shining down on the place where the chemical rivers run dry
There's a rain falling down but it's blistered the ground outside my back door
It flows out to the sea where the fish once swam free near the petroleum shores
The world is spinning faster while we're dancing with disaster
Will this generation last or will we burn
When will we learn
We've got to turn, turn
Turn before the closing door is locked for good
In my rear view mirror I can see where the forest has started to bleed
Earth stripped of its skin raped by men on a whim fuelled by corporate greed
In their haste to make waste they've moved south to a place where they can cut down the trees
When the trees are all gone they'll float on like a leaf held aloft by El Nino's warm breeze
The world is spinning faster while we're dancing with disaster
Will this generation last or will we burn
When will we learn
We've got to turn, turn
Turn before the closing door is locked for good
We're burning bridges we cannot rebuild
Across all the dump sites we've already filled
How can we live on a planet we've killed
The world is spinning faster while we're dancing with disaster
Will this generation last or will we burn
When will we learn
We've got to turn
Turn
Turn before the closing door is locked for good
Turn, turn, turn before the closing door is locked for good
Turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn
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Larry Norman performs "Turn", and this lyric page sits inside the Larry Norman catalog on LyroVerse.
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