Key: E minor
Verse 1
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In the beginning there
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was RHYTHM!
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it's cli mate, it's time
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It's sounds, it's pat terns,
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it's RHYTHM!
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God tells you there is RHYTHM
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God tells you there is wisdom
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And God tells you of eternal life
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World, RHYTHM, life, RHYTHM
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and body rhythm is rhythm
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What you beat your mu sic on
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Earth circling, circling our life
Pattern is the pattern, there's a rhythm
All around, signs come from where the
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music and the tunes come from
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It's beat, it's time,
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It's rhythm
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And silence
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Silence is a rhythm too!
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God is made of rhythm but
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you can't see it
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That's why you can't see God
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But we can see rhythm all over
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As much as you can hear it
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Or maybe we can't even see God
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I just didn't know where to look
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God is rhythm
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If we only would have known
God is rhythm
God is rhythm
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Full of rhythm, balls on which
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Rhythm, ob jects, rhythm
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The rhythm we're stepping with
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From streets, from water, from the air
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Makes us create our own rhythm
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Based on your natural rhythm
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That's when people admire
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yourself
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Walking is a rhythm
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And it's an art in your head
You time with the rhythm
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Like hands hit your leg s
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Doing an offbeat
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As soon as you sit still
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In beat on the bus
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and by yourself on the bus stop
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In beat with the train
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and even more on underground station
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Silence is a rhythm too
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You see, rhythm never stops
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Rhythm goes on
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And what happens after death
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where rhythm goes on
The living voice, we are not dying
And someone without rhythm
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Is a someone without roots
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Rhythm is the root of life,
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rhythm is the root of life
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You lose rhythm and you lose weight
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You see
Rhythm shows a form of God
Where rhythm keeps the
The others will die
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In the beginning
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God appears in many forms,
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like one of them is wisdom
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Then you choose to get wise
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Wisdom
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It's true that you will never,
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It's true that you will never, never, never,
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never, never lose freedom
God tells you, I am a dog
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God tells you, I am a mutant
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God tells you, I am wisdom
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God tells you, live eternal life
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it's life, it's eternal life
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Live it up, take it, live it up, live it up,
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live it up, live it, live it, live it
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Charters, you are living on the road
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And you will live this eternal life
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Seasons, the weather,
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the climate, it's freedom
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You feel it, an d you see it,
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and you hear it, in rhythm
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and all directions, rhythm
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that's its natural rhythm
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Civilised material rhythm,
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naturally is rhythm
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Different from factories, cars, machines,
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plastic rhythm
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Made by mankind,
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but man comes from nature
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Like medicine comes from there
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But then medicine gets made
out of medicine
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Double repeated again
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Becomes chemical like maps,
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factories, cars, machines
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Naturally is rhythm
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Powerful nature,
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Powerful nature, was their force
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In the beginning, there was rhythm
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It's God, it's space,
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It's time, it's songs,
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it's plants, it's an imals
It's humans, it's plants, it's fucking
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It's rhythm, it's God,
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silence
Silence is a rhythm too
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