Patti Smith - Up There Down There Lyrics

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Up there 
There's a ball of fire 
Some call it the spirit 
Some call it the sun 
Its energies are not for hire 
It serves man / It serves everyone 
Down there where Jonah wails 
in the healing water 
in the ready depths 
Twisting like silver swans 
No line of death no boundaries 

Up there 
The eye is hollow / The eye is winking 
The winds ablaze / Angels howling 
The sphinx awakens / But what can she say 
You'd be amazed 

Down there 
Your days are numbers 
Nothing to fear 
There will be trumpets 
There will be silence 
In the end the end 
Will be here just here 

Ahh the borders of heaven 
Are zipped up tight tonight 
The abstract streets 
The lights like some switched on Mondrian 
Cats like us are obsolete 
Hey Man don't breathe on my feet 
Thieves, poets we're inside out 
And everybody's a soldier 
Angels howl at those abstract lights 
And the borders of heaven 
Are zipped up tight tonight 

Up there 
There's a ball of fire 
Some call it the spirit 
Some call it the sun 
Its energies are not for hire 
It serves man / It serves everyone 
The air we breathe 
The flame of wisdom 
The earth we grind 
The beckoning sea 
It's no mystery / Not sentimental 
Ahh the equation / It's all elemental 

The world is restless 
Heaven in flux / Angels appear 
From the bright storm 
Out of the shadows 
Up there, down there 
But what can we say 
Man's been forewarned 

All communion is not holy 
Even those that fall 
They can prophet understanding 
It's all for man / It's for everyone 
It's up there, down there 
Everywhere / Everywhere 
Time for communion / Time for communion 
Talking communion ...

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lyrics submitted by Anne-Sophie
lyrics corrected by Olivia_Ka on 04-06-2009