I’m rolling in your dreams
Listening to your screams
The memory is covered by the rain of pain
The boat will float
to end of seas
Taking your memory of pain
When the Cheshire Cat slowly smiles to us
Cheshire Cat
Cheshire Cat
The river is drying
Faster than your memory of pain
“We the expendable people of the United States
Hold these dreams to be self-destructive”
Cheshire Cat
Cheshire Cat
Taking your memory of pain with it
Cheshire Cat
Cheshire Cat
And the boat will float
to end of seas
“We the expendable people of the United States
Hold these dreams to be self-destructive”
Cheshire Cat
Cheshire Cat
Blood is creating
A lake of tears of pain
Rain of pain
Stop the violence
Stop all wars
Stop the violence
Stop all wars
Taking your memory of pain with it
“We the expendable people of the United States
Ask for the violence to disappear”
“We the expendable people of the United States
Hold these dreams to be self-destructive”
Blood Money will give us independence and power
Stop the violence
I’m rolling in your dreams
Stop all wars
Listening to your screams
Stop the violence
The memory is covered by the rain of pain
Stop all wars
Cheshire Cat
Cheshire Cat
Cheshire Cat
Stop the violence
Stop the violence
Stop all wars
Who needs violence?
Who needs war?
Who needs it?
Who needs it?
Listening to your screams
The memory is covered by the rain of pain
The boat will float
to end of seas
Taking your memory of pain
When the Cheshire Cat slowly smiles to us
Cheshire Cat
Cheshire Cat
The river is drying
Faster than your memory of pain
“We the expendable people of the United States
Hold these dreams to be self-destructive”
Cheshire Cat
Cheshire Cat
Taking your memory of pain with it
Cheshire Cat
Cheshire Cat
And the boat will float
to end of seas
“We the expendable people of the United States
Hold these dreams to be self-destructive”
Cheshire Cat
Cheshire Cat
Blood is creating
A lake of tears of pain
Rain of pain
Stop the violence
Stop all wars
Stop the violence
Stop all wars
Taking your memory of pain with it
“We the expendable people of the United States
Ask for the violence to disappear”
“We the expendable people of the United States
Hold these dreams to be self-destructive”
Blood Money will give us independence and power
Stop the violence
I’m rolling in your dreams
Stop all wars
Listening to your screams
Stop the violence
The memory is covered by the rain of pain
Stop all wars
Cheshire Cat
Cheshire Cat
Cheshire Cat
Stop the violence
Stop the violence
Stop all wars
Who needs violence?
Who needs war?
Who needs it?
Who needs it?
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Album: "Take Me To The Land Of Hell"
Dall'album che segna il ritorno dell'ottantenne vedova Lennon con la riformata Plastic Ono Band, in cui ora suona anche il figlio Sean Lennon, con la partecipazione di alcuni ospiti tra cui Lenny Kravitz in questa traccia disturbata e disturbante.
Dal vivo la canzone è stata eseguita con i Flaming Lips. Sicuramente bisogna riconoscere che Yoko Ono sa urlare oggi come quarant'anni fa... cantare non ha mai saputo. D'altronde la canzone si chiama appunto il "grido (o il pianto) dello Stregatto" (o Ghignagatto se vogliamo usare una traduzione meno disneyana) con riferimento ad "Alice nel paese delle Meraviglie". È una canzone apertamente contro la guerra che contiene fra l'altro una divertente parodia della dichiarazione d'indipendenza (con un effetto simile a Self Evident di Ani DiFranco): "Noi, il popolo sacrificabile degli Stati Uniti riteniamo che questi sogni siano autolesionistici".
YOKO ONO – Vocals
Lenny Kravitz – Drums, Clavinet
Sean Ono Lennon – Bass, Electric Guitar, Synth