Stevie Wonder
Pastime Paradise
Songs In The Key Of Life (1976)

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Been spending most their lives living in a pastime paradise
Been spending most their lives living in a pastime paradise
Been wasting most their time glorifying days long gone behind
Been wasting most their days in remembrance of ignorance oldest praise

Tell me who of them will come to be?
How many of them are you and me?

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  Dissipation    race relations
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  Consolation    segregation
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  Dispensation, isolation, exploitation, mutilation
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  Mutation, miscreation, confirmation, to the evils of the world

Been spending most their lives living in the future paradise
Been spending most their lives living in the future paradise
Been looking in their minds for the day that sorrow's gone from time
They keep telling of the day when the Savior of love will come to stay

Tell me who of them will come to be?
How many of them are you and me?

  Proclamation of race relations
  Consolation, integration
  Verification of revelation, acclamation, world salvation
  Vibration, stimulation, confirmation, to the peace of the world

Been spending most their lives living in a pastime paradise               w/ gospel
Been spending most their lives living in a pastime paradise
They've been spending most their lives living in the future paradise
They've been spending most their lives living in the future paradise

We've been spending too much of our lives living in a pastime paradise
Let's start living our lives living for the future paradise
Praise to our lives living for the future paradise
Shame to anyone's life living in the pastime paradise

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