Niger - Malian Musicians & Damon Albarn

We will never lend a hand to this again When everybody asks, "What then?" Well, long as we can just pretend Even with the wait, with all of this at stake Well, heaven is a risk I'll take We'll never ever have to chase it Every day, hooray, I hear the phone Singing in their towns, they're dedicated To all the sounds they've found in praise of gods They put you in the mine, and then you find the gold And every episode, I am stating By the past in droves of everything And all the sounds I made in praise of God Put me in the mind and there I find the load We will never lend a hand to this again When everybody asks, "What then?" Well, long as we can just pretend Even with the wait, with all of this at stake Well, heaven is a risk I'll take Heaven is a risk I'll take Every sound Every sound you make Every sound Every day From a ship light, he got the rope For his truth in life, and tooth in gold By the time I thought he'd have climbed He taught himself in time to admit defeat No, he didn't even wake up from his sleep Heaven is a risk I'll take, a hand to this again When everybody asks, "What then?" Well, long as we can just pretend Even with the wait, with all of this at stake Well, heaven is a risk I'll take Heaven is a risk I'll take Heaven is a risk I'll take Heaven is a risk I'll take Heaven is a risk I'll take Heaven is a risk I'll take

I thought beyond the exit There would be palaces And so there were Composed within time Being here before If outside is no more The golden Astroturf The countdown to the big show Swimming in casinos

Rain turning into snow You put on your robes And disappear Into new realities Thoughts and memory Stay by your side Royal, royal morning blue You are saved And nothing like this had ever happened Before Outside the nearer the fountain (Royal morning blue) I'm saved Royal morning blue (Royal morning, royal morning blue) Running out of the things Sent to give us wings To fly away Into royal morning blue Memories of you At the end of the world Stay by my side At the end of the world Stay by my side Royal morning blue

I was moving forward From the point I've come from I was rolling lowly This is our song now I was moving forward From the point I've come from I was rolling lowly This is our song now Gotta see it Nothing means I gotta gotta Feel it Everything is out I gotta Hold out Everything is out I gotta Day out Just invite them Gotta Bore them Til I take us out I gotta feel like Every single line I gotta Clean it out to the side When we're not down and out Put it back together Put it back together Put it back together Put it back together Put it back together (yeah yeah yeah x3) Burning down the city Warning out of something But I need to find it 'Cause I got no sun down Dug a whole was so fun And a taste thats floating What it doesn't meet no Place to silent sleep now I gotta feeling Doesn't mean I sad because I Love me Everything around it isn't Better If you sing it loud and I Jam myself to dawn I got So much dissing at the side and When its Just another ride and you Sow yourself to the cat Bet it Put it back together Put it back together Put it back together Put it back together Put it back together (yeah yeah yeah x3)

Sunset we fold Untangled by our first glance We glowing In a desert fire Saving nothing from the past Just glowing I'm tripping into space radiating love In darkness I feel snug Turn me into lightning bug Slow glowing Glowing in the dark Finding streams of stars to taste Roll me out like moonlight On a still black lonesome lake Taken in by the night Empty elevated place Glowing in the dark to find streams of stars to taste By the way I wish I'd been There for you When the northern lights Got brighter It was not like that Not like that Not like that Not like that My world was enslaved Under the spell Of the eyes that paralyse Looking at the fairy lights Strung up around the door We've all fallen through in December The envoys of the palace sip the poison world That has been drunk dry This winter I'm singing Under the spell Of the eyes that paralyse me How will I come down Will I ever come back Still glowin' In lightness may the fall Put me straight on the path Unfolding Unravel these ways I'm ready to cast away Yes glowing In a desert fire Nothing left and nothing saved Glowing in the dark Finding streams of stars to taste Roll me out like moonlight On a clear black lonesome lake Taken home by the night Empty elevated place Glowing in the dark to find streams of stars to taste To taste To taste