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Artist: The Waterboys
Canonical path: /waterboys/don-t-bang-the-drum
Related lyric paths: 6
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Don't Bang The Drum
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Don't Bang The Drum
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Here we stand
In a special place
What are you gonna do here?
Now we stand
In a special place
What will you do here?
What show of soul
Are we gonna get from you
It could be deliverance
Or history under these skies
So blue
Could be something true...
...but if I know you
You'll bang the drum like monkeys do
Here we are in this fabulous place
What are you you gonna dream here?
We are standing in this fabulous place
What will you play here?
I know you love the high life
You life to leap around
You love to beat your chest
And make your sound
But not here man
- this is sacred ground
With a power flowing through...
..and if I know you
You'll bang the drum like monkeys do
Here we stand
On a rocky shore
Your father stood here before you
I can see his ghost explore you
I can feel the sea implore you
Not to pass on by
Not to walk on by
Not to try...
...just let it come
Don't bang the drum
Just let it come
Don't bang the drum
Just a-let it come
Don't bang the drum
Do you know how to let it come now?
Don't bang the drum now...
Just let it come now
Don't bang the drum
Just let it come
Don't bang the drum...
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