Nitin Sawhney - Prophesy

NITIN SAWHNEY

PROPHESY (2001)

  1. Sunset
  2. Nothing
  3. Required Dreams
  4. Nothing More
  5. Moonrise
  6. Street Guru (Part One)
  7. The Preacher
  8. Breathing Light
  9. Developed
10. Footsteps
11. Walk Away
12. Cold & Intimate
13. Street Guru (Part Two)
14. Ripping Out Tears
15. Prophesy

NITIN SAWHNEY

PROPHESY

1. SUNSET

If I were never to leave you
If I were always alone
If I were never to see you
If I could set the sun
If I could set the sun

Keep movin'
Keep changin'
Keep flowin' with the sun
Rivers rise
Oceans rise
People rise with the sun

If I were never to leave you
If I were always alone
If I were never to see you
If I could set the sun
If I could set the sun

Tears fallin'
Rain fallin'
Leaves are falling with the sun
Lives drifting
Seeds drifting
Worlds drifting with the sun

If I
If I
If I

If I were never to leave you
If I were always alone
If I were never to see you
If I could set with the sunset, say it
Say it, say it, say it, say it

If I
Never to leave here

If I
Always alone

If I

If I
Oceans rise
Rivers rise
If I
People rise
With the sun

If I
Oceans rise
Rivers rise
If I
People rise
With the sun.

2. NOTHING

Nothing new left to say
Can be heard
Nothing helps me find my way
Empty words

No more will I question why
What we feel
Nothing left to make me try
Nothing's real

Fear no one
No more fear
Nothing hides in me

If my nothing here resides
Inside me
I have nothing left to hide
We could be free

No more clinging to this world
Nothing here
Insecurity unfolds
No more fear

Fear no one
No more fear
Nothing
No more fear
No one
No more fear
Nothing hides in me

Feeling cuts me like a knife
And who's to say
If we have everything in life
Find our way

In this nothing I have found
Nothing more
But in the space inside my mind
I open doors

Doors
No one
Open doors
Nothing
Open doors
No one
Open doors
Nothing hides.

3. REQUIRED DREAMS
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4. NOTHING MORE

Feeling cuts me like a knife
Who's to say
If we have everything in life
We find our way
In this nothing I have found
Nothing more
But in the space inside my mind
I open doors

Doors
No one
Open doors
Nothing
Open doors
No one
Open doors
Nothing hides.

5. MOONRISE
No lyrics available

6. STREET GURU (Part One)

They've incorporated their culture and their values into the city and they've enriched the city both like, from uh, you know, work ethic and you know the restaurants and the music and it's really a diverse city. I mean, you walk through the Vany Avenue, you know, you go through Korean neighborhoods, Old Jewish neighborhoods, Arabic neighborhoods, uh, Pakistani-Indian neighborhoods.

It's incredible. The intensity. I think, yeah, development has pushed us away from other people. You know, a lot of times people are rude because they want like immediate access or immediate information. You know, some things in life can't be immediate, sometimes you just gotta wait and let things happen.

People are like, are increasingly rude. Like I'll say, somebody will get in a cab, we'll say "I'll get 'em there in 5 minutes". And they'll say, "well, it should only take 3". Now who gives a shit if it takes 5 minutes or 3 minutes, who cares? At the end of your life nobody's gonna put at your tombstone "shit, I got in a cab in five, in seven minutes instead of three". You know, it doesn't matter, and technology has made us slaves to time.

Naw, a lot of people that are really have technical jobs, they're slaves to time. And time is the essence of life it, seems like. And they're basically like losing it. They're losing the essence of their life because, you know, their life is like just going away and... They're not enjoying it, because their so engrossed in efficiency and productivity and shit like that... that it's almost sad. They all come here from somewhere else like seeking their fame and fortune or the top jobs and they're career, you know, in their, in their industries. They get very engrossed and they're into these, you know, these cell phones and computers and... I think the real important things in life are, you know, people and your family. I think you don't realize that, a lot of people don't realize that until they're older. I think there's gonna be a backlash against technology.

7. THE PREACHER

The Seal of Prophesy
Between the darkness and the light
Everyone must choose
Universal blues
Wisdom is the key
To the heart of Prophesy

Seal of Prophesy
Messengers have come and gone
The struggle still goes on
Synagogue, temple, mosque, church
Each and every place we search
Seal of Prophesy

Old ones will see visions
Young ones will dream dreams
But time will change conditions
'Til nothing's as it seems
The Seal of Prophesy

Seal of Prophesy
Everyone must choose
Universal blues
Universal blues
Universal blues.

8. BREATHING LIGHT

The fighting was the heaviest yet seen in Sarajevo. At the police station manned by officers loyal to the Muslim government and prisoner Izetbekovicz, men tried to find what cover they could as bullets literally kicked around them.

"We are free to be free".
Nelson Mandela

9. DEVELOPED

Everyone in Australia should be able to, uh, keep their culture together by using, exercising all these elements of today's reality. And that reality is development. And that, that development, um, I would think is the way that should be right. Not something that, uh, is put upon us or forced down our throats.

You and I know that music is universal language. And it doesn't have any prejudice. It has one way of thinking. Without prejudice.

10. FOOTSTEPS
Instrumental

11. WALK AWAY

Walked away
Heavier than footsteps drawn across the glade
I flew all night, couldn't get in
It rained all night, I was soaked to the skin

Walked away
Heavier than footsteps drawn across the glade
Watch my breath turn into steam
So his eyes grow dim

Walked away
Heavier than footsteps drawn across the glade
Let her in
Let her in, it was warm inside

Walked away
Heavier than footsteps drawn across the glade

Walked away
Heavier than footsteps drawn across the glade

More ways than one
More ways than one

More ways than one
More ways than one

More ways than one
More ways than one
More ways than one
More ways than one

"I have a dream"
Dr. Martin Luther King

More ways than one

"We're going to have a racial explosion"
Malcolm X

More ways than one
More ways than one.

12. COLD & INTIMATE

You see me walk
You see me fall
You touch the tears upon my face
I taste your words
I smell your fear
I feel your bittersweet embrace
Nothing mentioned, nothing gained
You're here and then you're gone
Your complications keep me sane
We're cold and intimate

I watch the news, I hear your words
I smell the lies beneath your smile
You hesitate, you deviate
From pictures filled with silence
Nothing mentioned, nothing gained
We're here and then we're gone
A simple world appears insane
But we're cold and intimate

We search within
We search without
We touch the corners of our minds
We play our lives
Deceive our friends
We taste the fruit of our own lies
Pointless ventures
Endless games
We were never here at all
Nothing in this world could change
Oh, are we cold and intimate.

13. STREET GURU (Part Two)

You see me walk
You see me fall

I think there's gonna be a backlash against technology. You know, and I don't know what's gonna cause it. I hope it won't be any environmental disaster shit, you know, for sure for my kids that wanna live a better life. That's so much materialistic, but I want a peaceful life. You know, sometimes it's good just to go in the woods and just go hiking and get back in touch with yourself and nature. You know, then you come back here and you realize that this is like, man, ludicrous all this emphasis on technology... Fifty different internet devices and shit, internet devices you can put in your pocket. Sometimes I feel threatened by it, but you know, that's the future and I am a man of the past. You know, I'm a, I'm a low-tech man in a high-tech world. I mean, it's a fact, man. I'm a low-tech man in a high-tech world. There ain't shit I can do about it because, you know, the world's changing and I'm not and you know, maybe I don't wanna change. And you know, maybe the people I associate with are like me, you know.

What's going on, we can't use our brains? It's just being a person, you know, it's being a fucking person, man.

14. RIPPING OUT TEARS

Breeding stool pigeons, I can't take it
Breeding stool pigeons, I can't take it

I saw two gunmen. I saw them who had weapons, black masks, black trenchcoats.
I was very frightened.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Ain't no stoppin' me, the Prophesy
I came to fulfill my destiny
Ain't no stoppin' me, the Prophesy
I came to fulfill my destiny
Breaker, breaker, 1, 9 in a world full of crime
They got a nine to my spine, no time to recline
Sit wine, relax and unwind
Time is running out
I'm trying to keep hope alive
President full of jive
My 9 to 5 is the hustle to strive
Born to die and survive at the same time
I gotta analyze what lies beneath genocide
What happened to the freedom rod?
Increase the murder rate by suicide

Hey, yo, government plots
Sometimes I think we was born to rot on the block
So many got shot over rocks
While the neighborhood watch the cops and shout
Hope somebody listening
While the buzz side is blizzening
But never mentioning
On the danger that's he's slipping in
Man, this world is tripping in
Make me wanna say it again
Yo, money, sex and religion
They got us all standing like stool pigeons
I can't take it
Man, I'm fully clothed and I feel naked
Walking through these streets of death
Yo, man gotta watch the left though
Man, it's real sick
I know it's like some devilish shit
It's like who making all these plots?

Who wanna see us all rot?
I don't know but this shit is sick
It's like disease trick, please
I can't take it, man
I can't take it, damn
I can't take it, man
I can't take it
Damn

Ain't no stoppin' me, the Prophesy
I came to fulfill my destiny
Ain't no stoppin' me, the Prophesy
I came to fulfill my destiny
Yo, what a lady gotta do?
Gotta come through, shake that ass to get that revenue?
Man, my mother never knew never had a clue
What this ill game will do
I'm trapped in this rap life living it
Man, everyday I'm giving it
Love the God because He made this
I don't know, trying to be famous
Man just shooting up
You wonder why the Jews stay looting up, booting up
For the front line
Man gotta speak from the mind

Man griddling
Got the kids minds griddling
Man, this shit is just simple and
I can't understand all these demons, man
Man griddling
Got the kids minds griddling
Man, this shit is just simple and
I can't understand all these demons, man

Cold killing, blood stakes spilling
These streets's revealing
Yo, we at the last days
Man, and I'm trapped in this worldly maze
Looking like, man, X was just a phase
Now I'm going back to my weed smoking days
Don't let it fuck with your brain
Ease through the pain and maintain
A lot of drug abuse
A lot of prostitutes
A lot of people dying for the loot
A lot of people barely got a roof
A lot of people barely know the truth
I'm like this

Ain't no stoppin' me, the Prophesy
I came to fulfill my destiny
Ain't no stoppin' me, the Prophesy
I came to fulfill my destiny
Ain't no stoppin' me, the Prophesy
I came to fulfill my destiny
Ain't no stoppin' me, the Prophesy
I came to fulfill my destiny.

15. PROPHESY
Instrumental

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