The Great Mandala (The Wheel Of Life) - Richie Havens

So I told him, that he better shut his mouth

And do his job like a man

And he answered, listen father

I will never kill another

Thinks hes better than his brother who died

What the hell does he think hes doing

To his father who brought him up right

Take a place on, the great mandala

As it moves through your brief moment in time

We’ll lose now, you must choose now

And if you lose your only losing your life

Tell the jailer not to bother, with his meal

Of bread and water today

He is fasting, till the killings over

He’s a modern, thinks he’s a prophet

But he’s a coward, he’s just playing the game

He can’t do it, he can’t change it

And its been going on for ten thousand years

Whats that rumbling, in the court yard

Seven thousand faces are turned to the gate

Whats that?

their saying, «kill the trader»

Kill the trader

Kill the trader, kill the trader

Tell the people they are safe now

Are guns stopped him, now he lies still in his cell

That has gagged all his accusations

We are free now, you can kill now

You can hate now, now we can end the world

We’re not guilty he was crazy

And its been going on for ten thousand years

And if you lose your only losing your life