Daniel Lanois

Power of one

Daniel Lanois


In the middle of the night it came to me 
A bridge to your ecstasy 
Images of a burned out hell 
You comin' in with your mission bell 

Don't sit, waiting for the thing to come 
Get lit, feel the power of one 
Don't sit waiting for the thing to come 
Get lit, feel the power of one 

Little sister let's go downtown 
and dance to the night sounds 
Hear the bass wafting down the hill 
From Echo Park, my Jamaica in L.A. 

Don't sit, waiting for the thing to come 
get lit feel the power of one 
Don't sit waiting for the thing to come 
Get lit feel the power of one 

It's in the shadows, in the sweet scent breeze 
In the riding out of a death disease 
The prettiness shining into complete 
In the bitterness burning up in the heat 

Don't sit waiting for the thing to come 
Get lit feel the power of one 
Don't sit waiting for the thing to come 
Get lit feel the power of one 

I was drowning in champagne eyes 
Skipping along in compromise 
When dignity rattled me on the back 
And my rebel mind needed to attack 

Don't sit waiting for the thing to come 
Get lit feel the power of the one 
Don't sit waiting for the thing to come 
Get lit feel the power of the one 

My sweetness you were with me when 
I was sad at an evolution bend 
hiding alone like a rolling stone 
Now I wanna know the power of your home 

Don't sit waiting for the thing to come 
Get lit feel the power of one 
Don't sit waiting for the thing to come 
Get lit feel the power of one 
Don't sit waiting for the thing to come 
Laugh in the face of a hundred planet guns