Patti Smith

Released: April 17, 2007

Songwriter: Stevie Wonder

Producer: Tony Shanahan Jay Dee Daugherty Lenny Kaye Patti Smith

Been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
Been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise

Been wasting most their lives
Glorifying days long gone behind
Been wasting most their days
In remembrance of ignorance oldest praise

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

Been spending most their lives
Living in a future paradise
Been spending most their lives
Living in a future paradise

Been looking in their minds
For the day that sorrow's gone from time
Keep telling of the day
When the savior of love will come to stay

Who of them will come to be
How many of them are you and me?

Proclamation of race relations
Immigration, integration
Verification of relations, acclamation, world salvation
Vibrations, stimulation, confirmation to the peace of the world

Been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
Been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise

Been spending most their lives
Living in a future paradise
Ohh, future paradise

Been spending too much of our lives
Living in a pastime paradise
Ohh, pastime paradise

Ohh, let's start living for the future
Ohh, future paradise

Let's start living our lives
Living for the future
Ohh, future paradise

Praise to our lives
Living for the future
Ohh, future paradise

Shame to anyone's lives
Living in the pastime paradise
Ohh, pastime paradise

Let's start living our lives
Living for the future
Ohh, future paradise

Let's start living our lives
Living for the future
Ohh, future paradise

Celebrated as a pioneer of the New York punk movement, Patti Smith is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and visual artist. Smith’s music is notable for its ambitious and unconventional fusion of rock and poetry, which led to her being dubbed the “punk poet laureate.”

Growing up, Smith was greatly inspired by poetry and Bob Dylan, whose songs were rich in poetry and politics. Before experimenting with music, she successfully made a name for herself as a poet in New York City’s underground arts scene. Among Smith’s most acclaimed work, her 1975 debut album, Horses, aimed to reflect the impact of her artistic

I was consciously trying to make a record that would make a certain type of person not feel alone. People who were like me, different… I wasn’t targeting the whole world. I wasn’t trying to make a hit record.

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