Daniel Lanois - Power of One

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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

2003 recording at KCRW|89.9FM radio show Morning Becomes Eclectic with Nic Harcourt. Lanois and Mother Superior perform in studio songs from the album Shine.

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[foreverlazarus]

incredibly refreshing...fell in love with your music in Slingblade with "The Maker".

Can't hear enough of the haunting bass....love his creativity

[NaoEW]

daniel lanois is genius.

[twistajones53]

great song

[ChrysalisBound]

~*~WOWZA!!~*~

[tedlaver]

great post! thank you! better than the album version!

[mattynz1]

Hearing these songs in this semi-casual jam is just what I was hoping for and never expected to find since Daniel Lanois doesn't perform in my backyard very often. I love the album in its own right, but this style of delivery is how I hear them in my head often. Daniel and Mother Superior right in the groove.. I'm loving it. Cheers! Is the radio stations cut available?