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Patti Smith - Gung Ho

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Album Review

Release date: 20 March 2000

Patti Smith - Gung Ho

Gung Ho

"Ten?": Patti hopes her album gets the top mark. Sadly not...

William Blake has a lot to answer for. Never mind that the best minds of their generation ended up believing that beards and loose clothing were a sure way of defeating war and good punctuation - when Bill was sitting in trees looking for angels, he could never have imagined that, at this point in time, an album would start with the words, "In the garden - of consciousness..."....

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  • Mar 16, 2000

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You say, hey
The state of the union
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On a field of red one gold star

Raised above his head

Raised above his head

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Ours is just another skin
Simply slips away
You can rise above it
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Hey there
Come and take a walk with me
Stroll into infinity
We'll stroll along until the dawn is gone

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One fine day these words I pray
Will breathe a truth
Within yourself upon a shelf
A life anew

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Hail brother
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