Released: September 28, 1976
Songwriter: Michael Sembello Stevie Wonder
Producer: Stevie Wonder
[Intro]
Packing my bags-going away
To a place where the air is clean
On Saturn
There's no sense to sit and watch people die
We don't fight our wars the way you do
We put back all the things we use
On Saturn
There's no sense to keep on doing such crimes
[Verse 1]
There's no principles in what you say
No direction in the things you do
For your world is soon to come to a close
Through the ages all great men have taught
Truth and happiness just can't be bought-or sold
Tell me why are you people so cold
[Chorus]
I'm going back to Saturn where the rings all glow
Rainbow, moonbeams and orange snow
On Saturn
People live to be two hundred and five
Going back to Saturn where the people smile
Don't need cars 'cause we've learned to fly
On Saturn
Just to live to us is our natural high
[Verse 2]
We have come here many times before
To find your strategy to peace is war
Killing helpless men, women and children
That don't even know what they're dying for
We can't trust you when you take a stand
With a burning bible in your hand
With a cold expression on your face
Saying give us what we want or we'll destroy
[Chorus]
I'm going back to Saturn where the rings all glow
Rainbow, moonbeams and orange snow
On Saturn
People live to be two hundred and five
Going back to Saturn where the people smile
Don't need cars 'cause we've learned to fly
On Saturn
Just to live to us is our natural high
Packing my bags-going away
To a place where the air is clean
On Saturn
There's no sense to sit and watch people die
We don't fight our wars the way you do
We put back all the things we use
On Saturn
There's no sense to keep on doing such crimes
[Verse 1]
There's no principles in what you say
No direction in the things you do
For your world is soon to come to a close
Through the ages all great men have taught
Truth and happiness just can't be bought-or sold
Tell me why are you people so cold
[Chorus]
I'm going back to Saturn where the rings all glow
Rainbow, moonbeams and orange snow
On Saturn
People live to be two hundred and five
Going back to Saturn where the people smile
Don't need cars 'cause we've learned to fly
On Saturn
Just to live to us is our natural high
[Verse 2]
We have come here many times before
To find your strategy to peace is war
Killing helpless men, women and children
That don't even know what they're dying for
We can't trust you when you take a stand
With a burning bible in your hand
With a cold expression on your face
Saying give us what we want or we'll destroy
[Chorus]
I'm going back to Saturn where the rings all glow
Rainbow, moonbeams and orange snow
On Saturn
People live to be two hundred and five
Going back to Saturn where the people smile
Don't need cars 'cause we've learned to fly
On Saturn
Just to live to us is our natural high
more tracks from the album
Songs in the Key of Life
- Isn’t She Lovely?
- Ordinary Pain
- Saturn
- Ebony Eyes
- Joy Inside My Tears
- Ngiculela-Es Una Historia - I Am Singing
- If It’s Magic
- All Day Sucker
- Easy Goin’ Evening (My Mama’s Call)
- Summer Soft
- Knocks Me Off My Feet
- Village Ghetto Land
- Pastime Paradise
- I Wish
- As
- Black Man
- Sir Duke
- Another Star
- Love’s in Need of Love Today
- Have a Talk with God
- Contusion
From the album
- Songs in the Key of Life (1976)
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- Superstition
- Isn’t She Lovely?
- I Just Called to Say I Love You
- Sir Duke
- I Wish
- Don’t You Worry ’Bout a Thing
- Living for the City
- Higher Ground
- Happy Birthday
- Master Blaster (Jammin’)
- Ribbon in the Sky
- Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours
- All I Do
- Overjoyed
- Faith
- Part-Time Lover
- My Cherie Amour
- Love’s in Need of Love Today
- Do I Do
- For Once in My Life
- Knocks Me Off My Feet
- Pastime Paradise
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