Hymn Of The Big Wheel Lyrics - Massive Attack

1 The big wheel keeps on turning

2 On a simple line, day by day

3 The earth spins on its axis

4 One man struggle while another relaxes

5 There's a hole in my soul like a cavity

6 Seems the world is out to gather just by gravity

7 The wheel keeps turning, the sky's rearranging

8 Look, my son, the weather is changing

9 I'd like to feel that you could be free

10 Look up at the blue skies beneath a new tree

11 Sometime again, you'll turn green, and the sea turns red

12 My son, I said, the power of reflections over my head

13 The big wheel keeps on turning

14 On a simple line, day by day

15 The earth spins on its axis

16 One man struggle while another relaxes

17 We sang about the sun and danced among the trees

18 And we listened to the whisper of the city on the breeze

19 Will you cry in the most in a lead-free zone

20 Down within the shadows where the factories drone

21 On the surface of the wheel they build another town

22 And so the green come tumbling down

23 Yes, close your eyes and hold me tight

24 And I'll show you sunset sometime again

25 The big wheel keeps on turning

26 On a simple line, day by day

27 The earth spins on its axis

28 One man struggle while another relaxes

29 As a child solemn pray, my hope hides in disguise

30 While satellites and cameras watch from the skies

31 An acid drop of rain recycled from the sea

32 It washed away my shadow, burnt a hole in me

33 And all the king's men cannot put it back again

34 But the ghetto sun will nurture life

35 And mend my soul sometime again

36 The big wheel keeps on turning

37 On a simple line, day by day

38 The earth spins on its axis

39 One man struggle while another relaxes