Description
A World Without You *
This got a bit asymmetrical. Careful with verses 2 (13 bars) and 3 (11 bars) if you're so inclined. Additional preview with my bass thump track for reference is included if wanted. Otherwise straight ahead 4/4 90 bpm in A.
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Lyrics
[Intro = 2 bars (silent on vox tracks)]
[Verse 01 = 12 bars]
Now, you know I have a dream:
people working together
to make the world better.
I looked [for it] around today…but I couldn’t find it.
Retribution, that’s your theme:
you came back into town;
said you’d hunt my dream down
and had the nerve to claim…you’d torture and blind it!
[Chorus 01 = 8 bars]
But it ain’t that kind of dream.
It’s not a cat and you can’t skin it.
It won’t cough up gold or a billion to play…
it won’t utter your name until Judgement Day.
Yes, I’m dreamin’ a dream about a beautiful world
without you in it.
[Verse 02 = 13 bars]
Now you don’t have to fear my dream,
though it’s like the rising tide.
You can yell in church you’re a god-sent king,
but you’re only along for the ride.
You can staff up ICE with a brown-shirt crew
of trolls to attack folks who voted too blue.
You can murder and jail and deport, it’s true,
but in my dream the Truth is gonna come for you.
Yes, I’m dreamin’ a dream about a beautiful world
without you in it.
[Verse 03 = 11 bars]
No, this ain’t your kind of dream.
It’s not a game and you can’t win it.
I’m gonna stay here at home, learn to play the guitar,
while you fly yourself to Mars on that plane from Qatar.
Take your Stevens and Kristis and Ruperts and Tuckers
and Elons and Jareds: your jesters and suckers…
‘cause, I’m givin’ the world my beautiful, wonderful dream
without y’all in it.
[Chorus 01 = 6 bars plus 2 outro]
Now, you know I have a dream:
people working together
to make the world better.
Yes, I’m dreamin’ a dream about a beautiful world
without you in it.
