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Amazon

hey won't you come with me, i'm goin' down to the river
what do you think we'll see, down by the river?

well there is an empty plain, where there was forest
until they found a vein and laid it open....

now see the farmer slash and burn, smell the smoke that fills the air
see the soil washing away, and the hole in the atmosphere,
just a little hole in the atmosfear...

and the water is turning brown
fed with the blood of the fertile ground,
filled with the bones of the forest cut down
where there was life before, won't you tell me what will there be now?
down by the river, down by the amazon

hey won't you come with me, i'm goin' down by the river
cause i know the secrets run deep down by the river...
woah I got to go

yeah there is a native man, the river is his life
he's in jail for living on his homeland, cause they said he wasn't civilized
now that makes him a sacrifice, so can you tell me what is civilized?

i've got to hurry, i've got to run, got to seek out the shaman
I gotta pray for the medicine way, or fall prey to ruin, oh no
tell me what are we doin'? praying to ruin...are we praying to our ruin?

while the water is turning brown
fed with the blood of the fertile ground
filled with the bones of the forest cut down
where there was life before tell me what will there be now?
down by the river, down by the amazon

goin' down by the river, goin' down by the river,
hey won't you come with me, come on down....
yeah , just a little further down now.. gotta take it all the way down, down, down...

you know alice fell down the rabbit hole, down by the river
what did miss alice behold, down in the lower world?
yeah, she went down where the spirits dwell there was a waterfall, down in the underworld
where all the good spirits were singing a song,
hey alice, don't you don't you want to sing along?
sing heyheyhey!and your heart is the drum ....beating out the rhythm
beating out all around the world
cause what goes around comes around, yeah

it goes around and comes around
[ and comes around and comes around and goes around and goes around ]
and oh.... send it all the way around

and send it down, down, down ...
down d-d-d-d-down d-d-d-d-down d-down d-down d-down
down d-d-d-d-down d-d-d-d-down d-down d-down d-down
I'm goin' down, down...

cause woah i got to sing it while the river runs, got to sing it for the shaman
I gotta sing it for everyone, sing it from the heart now children, yeah
sing it from the heart now children, the heart of the amazon
the heart of the amazon heyheyhey! sing it for the amazoneveryone come on down now

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