Massive Attack - Hymn of the Big Wheel lyrics
[Massive Attack - Hymn of the Big Wheel lyrics]
There's a hole in my soul like a cavity
Seems like the world is out
To gather just by gravity
The wheel keeps turning
The sky's rearranging
Look, my son, the weather is changing
I'd like to feel that you could be free
Look up at the blue skies beneath a new tree
Sometime again you'll turn green and
The sea turns red my son, I said
The power of axis over my head
The big wheel keeps on turning
On a simple line, day by day
The Earth spins on it's axis
One man struggles while another relaxes
We sang about the Sun and
Danced among the trees
And we listened to the whisper of
The city on the breeze
Will you cry in the most, in a lead-free zone
Down within the shadows where
The factories drone?
On the surface of the wheel
They build another town
And so the green come tumbling down
Yes, close your eyes and hold me tight
And I'll show you sunset sometime again
As a child's silent prayer
My hope hides in disguise
While satellites and cameras watch
From the skies
An acid drop of rain recycled from the sea
It washed away my shadow, burnt a hole in me
And all the King's men cannot
Put it back again
But the ghetto Sun will nurture life
And mend my soul sometime again
The big wheel keeps on turning
On a simple line, day by day
The Earth spins on it's axis
One man struggle while another relaxes
Seems like the world is out
To gather just by gravity
The wheel keeps turning
The sky's rearranging
Look, my son, the weather is changing
I'd like to feel that you could be free
Look up at the blue skies beneath a new tree
Sometime again you'll turn green and
The sea turns red my son, I said
The power of axis over my head
The big wheel keeps on turning
On a simple line, day by day
The Earth spins on it's axis
One man struggles while another relaxes
We sang about the Sun and
Danced among the trees
And we listened to the whisper of
The city on the breeze
Will you cry in the most, in a lead-free zone
Down within the shadows where
The factories drone?
On the surface of the wheel
They build another town
And so the green come tumbling down
Yes, close your eyes and hold me tight
And I'll show you sunset sometime again
As a child's silent prayer
My hope hides in disguise
While satellites and cameras watch
From the skies
An acid drop of rain recycled from the sea
It washed away my shadow, burnt a hole in me
And all the King's men cannot
Put it back again
But the ghetto Sun will nurture life
And mend my soul sometime again
The big wheel keeps on turning
On a simple line, day by day
The Earth spins on it's axis
One man struggle while another relaxes