[Horace Andy]
    The big wheel keeps on turning
  On a simple line day by day
  The earth spins on its axis
  One man struggle while another relaxes
    There's a hole in my soul like a cavity
  Seems like the world is out to gather just by gravity
  The wheel keeps turning the sky's rearranging
  Look my son the weather is changing
    I'd like to feel that you could be free
  Look up at the blue skies beneath a new tree
  Sometime again
  You'll turn green and the sea turns red
  My son I said the power of axis over my head
  The big wheel keeps on turning
  On a simple line day by day
  The earth spins on its axis
  One man struggle while another relaxes
    We sang about the sun and danced among the trees
  And we listened to the whisper of the city on the breeze
  Will you cry in the most in a lead-free zone
  Down within the shadows where the factories drone
  On the surface of the wheel they build another town
  And so the green come tumbling down
  Yes close your eyes and hold me tight
  And i'll show you sunset sometime again
    The big wheel keeps on turning
  On a simple line day by day
  The earth spins on its axis
  One man struggle while another relaxes
  As a child's silent prayer my hope hides in disguise
  While satellites and cameras watch from the skies
  An acid drop of rain recycled from the sea
  It washed away my shadow burnt a hole in me
  And all the king's men cannot put it back again
  But the ghetto sun will nurture life
  And mend my soul sometime again
    The big wheel keeps on turning
  On a simple line day by day
  The earth spins on its axis
  One man struggle while another relaxes
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