You make me wanna shine over Babylon
You make me wanna shine over Babylon
Leave your possession, hope abounds

I wait for shouts from crazy cranks
You make me wanna shine over Babylon
We're all just followers from here on out
Can lead to madman oil drillers
You make me wanna shine over Babylon
If everything in life was free
Clowns and gypsies all but gone
Cities drowning under boiling fountains
Scavengers, they run up and hand you

Seal the gap between you and me
I sing these songs with little thanks
You make me wanna shine over Babylon
You make me wanna shine over Babylon
I was trembling in a golden haze
Teacher's hands are overrun

We celebrate the golden cow
Praise the bloated bank account
You make me wanna shine over Babylon
Where gurus bubble up on ganja

You make me wanna shine over Babylon
Sanskrit message from the mounts

All the junk that should have damned you

If there's a god, where is he now?
I dreamed of chilly, sunlit days
I take the stage, I walk the planks
Won't be long before we all are killers
Hollow stones on mindless filler
You make me wanna shine over Babylon
Freedom's etched on sacred pillars

There's nothing here for you to cry about

Creatures of a waning sun
Buying bread and paying for none
Men and women and children all have overbuilt
Great highways in a constant melt
I found my way to Alexandria
The things that you can't seem to see
You make me wanna shine over Babylon
Little boy lost way up the mountains

We'd float in our own reverie
The precipice is slipping further out
I stand amidst the brown shirt ranks