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Past time paradise

from Orange Kitchen by SOA & Friends

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A song by Stevie Wonder.

Arrangements: Jean-Christophe Béney, Chrystelle Maechler

lyrics

PASTIME PARADISE
Stevie Wonder

They've been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
They've been wasting most their lives
Glorifying days long gone behind
They've 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

Dissipation
Race Relations
Consolation
Segregation
Dispensation
Isolation
Exploitation
Mutilation
Mutations
Miscreation
Confirmation.......to the evils of the world

They've been spending most their lives
Living in a future paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a future paradise
They've 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 Revelations
Acclamation
World Salvation
Vibrations
Simulation
Confirmation.......to the peace of the world

They've been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a future paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a 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 lives
Living in a pastime paradise

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from Orange Kitchen, track released October 30, 2008
Musical direction: Jean-Christophe Béney

Vocals (lead + back): Chrystelle Maechler (aka SOA)
Piano / Rhodes: Thüryn Mitchell
Drums: Martin Auguste
Double bass: Morgan Moore
Saxophone: Jean-Christophe Béney
Tambourine: Jean-Christophe Béney, Chrystelle Maechler

Recording: Studio St Urbain, Montreal, QC, Canada
Mix/mastering: Paul Johnston

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SOA is the imaginative jazz project of Toronto-based French vocalist and lyricist Chrystelle Maechler.

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