How to Stay Alive - Gong

Let the song man spin it

It began at the beginning

Was a sweet green planet

Nothing on it, nothing to it, nothing in it

Nothing to do with the planet as we know it

It’s a planet coming to you but you don’t know if its there

Maybe its here, maybe there

Check it underneath the Milky Way

Right beside the southern cross

I don’t think so!

You just can’t see it but it ain’t going away

You’ve gotta dance and sing and everything will

Clarify, fructify, multiply, fact finding it

Will never satisfy

Not the big bang, not the big bong

But the planet called GONG

Its a singin' and a ringin out

This is where we’re coming from

This is where that we belong

This is where it all began Hu-man

They coming out of an intention

Which I hesitate to mention

Maybe out of space is just a parallel dimension

They coming down from a planet

So far, so near

That’s where it all began

That music you hear

It happened to remind me of a long long story

Bout a visit from the stars, some old Babas

Professor Paradox sent the Octave Docs

Those Time Doctors on space guitars

Those wise avatars from a distant star

They have watched us

Take me to your leaders!

We assume the position of possession of power

We chop out the life

We live by the knife

Cut out the memory

That everybody’s family

One great family of conscious humanity (X4)

And the time will come

When the Star Men arrive

In 2032 they’ll be looking at you

They’re coming down to Earth

And it’s been so long

So very very long ago

When play last end

To come down here

To show us what we need to know

How to survive without killing the planet

How to survive without killing the planet?

(We need to know!)

How to stay alive?

(We need to know!)

Let the song man spin it

It began at the beginning

Was a sweet green planet

Nothing on it, nothing to it Nothing in it

Nothing to do with the planet as we know it

It’s a planet coming to you but you don’t know if its there

Maybe its here, maybe there

Check it underneath the Milky Way

Right beside the southern cross

I don’t think so!

You just can’t see it but it ain’t going away

It’s a singing and a ringing out

This is where we’re coming from

This is where that we belong

This is where it all began

Human