[ti:Hymn Of The Big Wheel] [ar:Massive Attack] [al:Blue Lines] [offset:500] [00:00.00]Massive Attack - Hymn Of The Big Wheel [00:45.89](marshall, vowles, del naja, cherry, andy) [00:47.89] [Horace Andy] [00:49.89]The big wheel keeps on turning [00:54.40]On a simple line day by day [00:59.58]The earth spins on its axis [01:04.56]One man struggle while another relaxes [01:08.28] [01:09.20]There's a hole in my soul like a cavity [01:13.56]Seems like the world is out to gather just by gravity [01:19.36]The wheel keeps turning the sky's rearranging [01:24.30]Look my son the weather is changing [01:28.25] [01:29.09]I'd like to feel that you could be free [01:33.78]Look up at the blue skies beneath a new tree [01:37.85]Sometime again [01:39.41]You'll turn green and the sea turns red [01:44.55]My son I said the power of axis over my head [01:51.65]The big wheel keeps on turning [01:56.35]On a simple line day by day [02:01.51]The earth spins on its axis [02:06.50]One man struggle while another relaxes [02:10.40] [02:11.33]We sang about the sun and danced among the trees [02:15.88]And we listened to the whisper of the city on the breeze [02:20.93]Will you cry in the most in a lead-free zone [02:26.34]Down within the shadows where the factories drone [02:31.09]On the surface of the wheel they build another town [02:36.01]And so the green come tumbling down [02:40.91]Yes close your eyes and hold me tight [02:45.82]And i'll show you sunset sometime again [02:51.00]The big wheel keeps on turning [02:55.89]On a simple line day by day [03:01.05]The earth spins on its axis [03:05.98]One man struggle while another relaxes [03:09.95] [03:35.57]As a child's silent prayer my hope hides in disguise [03:40.43]While satellites and cameras watch from the skies [03:45.42]An acid drop of rain recycled from the sea [03:50.41]It washed away my shadow burnt a hole in me [03:55.40]And all the king's men cannot put it back again [04:00.25]But the ghetto sun will nurture life [04:05.27]And mend my soul sometime again [04:17.04] [04:57.52][04:37.59][04:17.87]The big wheel keeps on turning [05:02.28][04:42.43][04:22.59]On a simple line day by day [05:07.34][04:47.56][04:27.77]The earth spins on its axis [05:12.50][04:52.62][04:32.81]One man struggle while another relaxes [05:16.21][04:56.46][04:36.35] [05:43.79] [06:25.21]END