I'm living in the material world

Living in the material world

Can't say what I'm doing here

But I hope to see much clearer,

after living in the material world

I got born into the material world

Getting worn out in the material world

Use my body like a car,

Taking me both near and far

Met my friends all in the material world

Met them all there in the material world

John and Paul here in the material world

Though we started out quite poor

We got 'Richie' on a tour

Got caught up in the material world

From the Spiritual Sky,

Such sweet memories have I

To the Spiritual Sky

How I pray

Yes I pray

that I won't get lost

or go astray

As I'm fated for the material world

Get frustrated in the material world

Senses never gratified

Only swelling like a tide

That could drown me in the

material world

From the Spiritual Sky,

Such sweet memories have I

To the Spiritual Sky

How I pray

Yes I pray

that I won't get lost

or go astray

While I'm living in the material world

Not much 'giving' in the material world

Got a lot of work to do

Try to get a message through

And get back out of this material world

I'm living in the material world

Living in the material world

I hope to get out of this place

by the LORD SRI KRSNA'S GRACE

My salvation from the material world

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The Art of Dying

There'll come a time when all of us must leave here

Then nothing sister Mary can do

Will keep me here with you

As nothing in this life that I've been trying

Could equal or surpass the art of dying

Do you believe me?

There'll come a time when all your hopes are fading

When things that seemed so very plain

Become an awful pain

Searching for the truth among the lying

And answered when you've learned the art of dying

But you're still with me

But if you want it

Then you must find it

But when you have it

There'll be no need for it

There'll come a time when most of us return here

Brought back by our desire to be

A perfect entity

Living through a million years of crying

Until you've realized the Art of Dying

Do you believe me?

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So Sad

Now the winter has come

To eclipse out the sun

That has lighted my love for sometime

And a cold wind now blows

Not much tenderness flows

From the heart of someone feeling so tired

And he feels so alone

With no love of his own

So sad, so bad, so sad, so bad

While his memory raced

With much speed and great haste

Through the problems of being there

In his heart at arm's length

Held within its great strength

To ward off such a great despair

But he feels so alone

With no love of his own

So sad, so bad, so sad, so bad

Take the dawn of the day

And give it away

To someone who can fill the part

Of the dream we once held

Now it's got to be shelved

It's too late to make a new start

And he feels so alone

With no love of his own

So sad, so bad, so sad, so bad

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Think for yourself

I've got a word or two

To say about the things that you do

You're telling all those lies

About the good things that we can have

if we close our eyes

Do what you want to do

And go where you're going to

Think for yourself

'Cause I won't be there with you

I left you far behind

The ruins of the life that you have in mind

And though you still can't see

I know your mind's made up

you're gonna cause more misery

Do what you want to do

And go where you're going to

Think for yourself

'Cause I won't be there with you

Although your mind's opaque

Try thinking more if just for your own sake

The future still looks good

And you've got time to rectify

all the things that you should

Do what you want to do

And go where you're going to

Think for yourself

'Cause I won't be there with you

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Any Road

Oh I've been traveling on a boat and a plane

In a car on a bike with a bus and a train

Traveling there and traveling here

Everywhere in every gear

But oh Lord we pay the price with a

Spin of a wheel - with a roll of a dice

Ah yeah you pay your fare

And if you don't know where you're going

Any road will take you there

And I've been traveling through the dirt and the grime

From the past to the future through the space and the time

Traveling deep beneath the waves - in

watery grottoes and mountainous caves

But oh Lord we've got to fight

With the thoughts in the head with the dark and the light

No use to stop and stare

And if you don't know where you're going

Any road will take you there

You may not known where you came from

May not know who you are

May not have even wondered how

you got this fair

I've been traveling on a wing and a prayer

By the skin of my teeth by the breadth of a hair

Traveling where the four winds blow

With the sun on my face - in the ice

and the snow

But oooeeee it's a game

Sometimes you're cool, sometimes

you're lame

Ah yeah it's somewhere

And if you don't know where you're going

Any road will take you there

But oh Lord we pay the price

With the spin of the wheel with the roll of

the dice

Ah yeah, you pay your fare

And if you don't know where you're going

Any road will take you there

I keep traveling around the bend

There was no beginning, there is no end

It wasn't born and never dies

There are no edges, there is no sides

Oh yeah, you just don't win

It's so far out - the way out is in

Bow to God and call him Sir

But if you don't know where you're going

Any road will take you there .