REVOLUTIONS SONG LYRICS

All songs written by Nikhil Korula
Copyright 2020

 

>>INTRO
>>SURVIVE/JUST LET LOVE
>>TESTIFY
>>REVOLUTIONS
>>GIVE AND FORGIVE
>>ALL NIGHT
>>TO BE WITH YOU
>>THORNS TO EVERY ROSE
>>BY MY SIDE
>>POWER THROUGH THE PAIN
>>THE OTHER SIDE
>>I WISH I KNEW

 

INTRO

Give your heart to music
Give your heart to music
Give your heart to music
Revolutions
Revolutions
Revolutions
Revolutions…

SURVIVE/JUST LET LOVE

[Intro]
Yeah…

I will survive these lonely nights
I will survive this war
And when it’s over, we’ll still have to love

Yeah…

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Verse 1
I don’t need your attention
I don’t see that you care
‘Cause to me, the sun shines everywhere but here
Can’t you see love has no partiality

I won’t seek your sensation
I will breathe for salvation
Let me be and I promise to succeed
Help me see that this world needs unity

(Chorus)
Just let love be the sunshine of our lives

Verse 2
Is beauty just an illusion
All within our imagination?
I believe when it’s dark our souls will shine
Someday you’ll see, all we need is harmony

[Bridge]
So much pain inside of all of us
When it rains, the sun will shine
So much trouble in the world
When it rains, the sun will shine in the light of love today

Verse 3
Life’s a free state of being
Destiny will bring us home
Comfort me, I’ll love you eternally
Don’t just leave, in this prison love’s the key

(Chorus)
Just let love be the sunshine of our lives
Na na na…

[Outro]
Surround yourself with serenity…

 

TESTIFY

Verse 1
Sacrifice it
Legalize it
Just can’t buy it
There’s more to life than holding all your troubles inside it

Maximize it
Please don’t hide it
Can’t despise it
Listen to the music and your heart will sing it

(Pre-Chorus)
I’ll give to you
I will for you

Verse 2
Sanctify it
Don’t deny it
We’ll unite it
Killing only makes us wonder why we fight it

Justify it
Don’t divide it
You’ll surprise it
Give me all the questions that you’ve hid inside it

(Chorus)
Come testify
Come testify
Come testify
Come testify
Oh…

Verse 3
Rectify it
We’ll supply it
Don’t pass by it
Take out all confusion if your mind can’t find it

Certify it
Beautify it
Classify it
Do whatever deed you think you have to try it

(Pre-Chorus)
I’ll give for you
I live for you

Verse 4
Glorify it
Satisfy it
Magnify it
Break out from the heavy chains if you deny it

Amplify it
Quantify it
Dignify it
Elevate your life with every act behind it

(Chorus)
Come testify
Come testify
Come testify
Come testify
Oh…
Come testify

 

REVOLUTIONS

(Chorus A)
Feel the universe inside us
Here the answers do reside
Governments will try to break us
See the revolutions come

Verse 1
When the world becomes divided, corporations rule the people like we’re puppets on a string
Get all the citizens united making war go out of business so we don’t have to pay the price
People looting in the streets while education takes it’s plight to help our leaders reach their bottom line
But making time to take the blinders off each other will inspire us to keep wool out of our eyes

(Chorus B)
Revolutions come to build our world as one

(Chorus A)
Feel the universe inside us
Here the answers do reside
Governments will try to break us
See the revolutions come

Verse 2
Banks deceive us day and night with expectations not to fight us over money we have earned
While casting spells of picket fences in our minds with no defenses stealing dreams of generations ahead
The illusion of confusion plagues the pillars of our future with each step that we never take
In letting Wall Street pick our pockets, evil crimes have been committed, it’s time to stop fraud to us all

(Chorus B)
Revolutions come to build our world as one

(Chorus A)
Feel the universe inside us
Here the answers do reside
Governments will try to break us
See the revolutions come
See the revolutions come
See the revolutions come
See the revolutions come
See the revolutions come…

 

GIVE & FORGIVE

Verse 1
Tonight, the stars hang low over our heads
With light, they tell us stories as we lay to bed
The gift of life so many come to forget
Our secret lies in how we live before we’re dead

(Pre-chorus)
Take your time, there’s no rush to find it out
Your heart will break, that’s what learning is all about
Leave it space to figure out which road to take
But in the meantime…

(Chorus)
Give & Forgive

Verse 2
Your hand in mine is the only truth I know
Those eyes have stared into my soul lifetimes ago
But draining sands is a race we can’t escape
How can we be all we ever strive to be?
(Pre-chorus)
Take your time, there’s no rush to find it out
Your heart will break, that’s what learning is all about
Leave it space to figure out which road to take
But in the meantime…

(Chorus)
Give & Forgive

[Instrumental Bridge]
Oh…

(Chorus)
Give & Forgive

[Instrumental Bridge]
Oh…

Give & Forgive

 

ALL NIGHT

Verse 1
Please, please forgive me
I am asking you, baby
For all the wonderful things you ring true
I don’t deserve you

(Pre-Chorus)
I keep telling myself
These sweet things you do for me
I made up my mind
I’m gonna have to give it to you all night
Hey, baby
You’re making me crazy for you when eye to eye

(Chorus)
Give it and give it and give it,
Give it to me all night
Hey, baby

Verse 2
Please please, believe me
Can’t stop thinking about you
From the moment I wake
You’re the one I want to give you
All you can take

(Pre-Chorus)
‘Cause on the way home
Your soul brightens up my life
Made up my mind, I’m gonna have to
Give it to you all night
Hey, baby
You’re making me crave for all of your juice inside

(Chorus)
Give it and give it and give it,
Give it to me all night
Hey, baby

Verse 3
Don’t you walk out that door
Before I give you some more
It’s just the things that you do
You keep on loving me, too
You make me need you

(Pre-Chorus)
You get a hold of yourself
My brain keeps on ordering
Made up my mind, I’m gonna have to
Give it to you all night
Hey, baby
You’re making me crave you for all eternity

(Chorus)
Give it and give it and give it,
Give it to me all night
Hey, baby

[Outro]
You’re making me love you for all eternity
Give it and give it and give it,
Give it to me all night
Hey, baby
You’re making me love you for all eternity
Give it and give it and give it,
Give it to me all night
Hey, baby

That’s right…

 

TO BE WITH YOU

Verse 1
She dreams of heaven in his arms
And I see starlight in her eyes
But she don’t want me to believe
That she could be the only one

(Chorus)
I would ride into the night
I would sail the deepest sea
I would climb the highest peak
Just to be with you…

Verse 2
She holds my heart right in her hands
Sifting through like grains of sand
And all I want for her to see
Is there’s no other guy like me

(Chorus)
I would ride into the night
I would sail the deepest sea
I would climb the highest peak
Just to be with you…

[Bridge]
I’ll be the one she cries to
But won’t be the one she runs to
And now she sees all the pain inside
Of all my lost blue skies

(Chorus)
I would ride into the night
I would sail the deepest sea
I would climb the highest peak
Just to be with you…

Verse 3
I guess someday time will just tell
That I’ll be with someone else
And maybe then she’ll start to see
Just what that girl had meant to me

(Chorus)
I would ride into the night
I would sail the deepest sea
I would climb the highest peak
Just to be with you…

 

THORNS TO EVERY ROSE

Verse 1
To climb the steepest trail
To soar forever more
We look into the wind
For answers all within

(Chorus)
We run away to something so brand new
We sing our love songs knowing all along
We do unto ourselves the tears we cry at night
We hold our darkness close like thorns to every rose
We chose…

Verse 2
To find your hidden gold
Beware of the ghosts inside
They’ll trespass in your mind
And make your heart go blind

(Chorus)
We run away to something so brand new
We sing our love songs knowing all along
We do unto ourselves the tears we cry at night
We hold our darkness close like thorns to every rose
We chose…

[Bridge]
This night we fight the good fight
Seek out any retribution
Regret is the most expensive debt
Your light is the way home

Verse 3
To know just what to do
When everyone confuses you
You say that I’m no help
Then trust your instincts felt

(Chorus)
We run away to something so brand new
We sing our love songs knowing all along
We do unto ourselves the tears we cry at night
We hold our darkness close like thorns to every rose

 

BY MY SIDE

Verse 1
Watching you run to places you’re finding
Your comfortable beauty is always residing
Can you hear me calling, calling out anymore?
Can you see me falling, falling down at your door?

(Pre-Chorus)
(I) Cannot live here without you
(Chorus)
By my side

Verse 2
Reaching for something I can hold onto
The touch of your distance is all I belong to
Can you hear me calling, calling out your name?
Can you see me fallen, fallen down to shame?

(Pre-Chorus)
(I) Cannot live here without you

(Chorus)
By my side

[Bridge]
You only hide
Are you lonely tonight?
Do you want me to try
To be by your side?

[Outro]
(I) Cannot live here without you
(I) Cannot live here without you
(I) Cannot go on without you
(I) Cannot go on without you
By my side

 

POWER THROUGH THE PAIN

Verse 1
I remember every fall from grace
While I wiped all the tears on my face
When I stand tall, I always know my place

(Chorus)
‘Cause you won’t power through the pain
If you can’t dance in the rain

Verse 2
Bullets fly across the bluest sky
Blood’s been spilled over every green hill
With each wound, there’s always time to heal

(Chorus)
But, you won’t power through the pain
If you can’t dance in the rain

[Bridge]
Every storm has it’s weather
Every flower blooms someday
And if you power through the pain
I’ll see you dance in the rain

Verse 3
Failures come and problems will go
With our scars, a story has been told
From our youth until we grow old

(Chorus)
Well, you won’t power through the pain
If you can’t dance in the rain

[Bridge]
Every storm has it’s weather
Every flower blooms someday
And if you power through the pain
I’ll see you dance in the rain

(Chorus)
But you won’t power through the pain
If you can’t dance in the rain

 

THE OTHER SIDE

Verse 1
I see myself drifting to a place where winds won’t blow me
Wondering if this is the way to go
‘Cause my road knows my end before I ever get there
And time can be a lonely friend
Where do we go when all know what’s lost and what’s forgotten
When all we need is a friendly face

(Chorus)
I’ve been to the other side
Now my conscience won’t let me hide
I’ve been to the other side
Feel all this pain is just gonna make me cry
I’ve been to the other side
Now my conscience won’t let me hide
I’ve been to the other side
Feel all this pain is just gonna make me cry
I want to take myself to some place else

Verse 2
I play this game by all the rules, but sometimes fate restrains you
From doing the things you want to do, who knew?
Just bring me to somewhere new that somehow seems familiar
And keep my close ones right behind to find
When do we show the pain we know of losing all forgiveness
If trust is all we sacrifice?

(Chorus)
I’ve been to the other side
Now my conscience won’t let me hide
I’ve been to the other side
Feel all this pain is just gonna make me cry
I’ve been to the other side
Now my conscience won’ let me hide
I’ve been to the other side
Feel all this pain is just gonna make me cry
I want to take myself to some place else

[Bridge]
How can we live day after day when all we need is to be free?
Mile after mile and time after time, all we need is to be free to love

Verse 3
So if my path leads me to a place where no one knows me
I guess this is where I’m supposed to be, we’ll see
And as my seeds start to grow, my roots will never falter
When we can be the light we need to be
So how can we know which way to go when every shore is crowded
And everyone leaves without a trace?

(Chorus)
I’ve been to the other side
Now my conscience won’t let me hide
I’ve been to the other side
Feel all this pain is gonna make me cry
The other side
The other side
The other side
The other side…

 

I WISH I KNEW

*Dedicated to the loving memory of Zane Musa, Mike Eyia & Karan Joseph

Verse 1
I wish I knew when your heavy pain began
I wish I knew that you needed a helping hand
Mostly, I miss you
Mostly, I miss you

Verse 2
I wish I knew when I could hear you play again
I wish I knew what made us laugh so hard back then
Mostly, I miss you
Mostly, I miss you

(Chorus)
I didn’t know you’d fall
Just to end it all
Make heaven beautiful

Verse 3
I wish I knew that you needed a friendly voice
I wish I knew why you thought there was no choice
Mostly, I miss you
Mostly, I miss you

(Chorus)
I didn’t know you’d fall
Just to end it all
Make heaven beautiful

[Bridge]
Stages never mean the same
Without you soloing insane
I’ll always miss you on my left
‘Cause losing you, the greatest theft

Verse 4
I wish I knew if we’ll ever meet again
But now I know how bright a star can burn
Mostly, I miss you
Mostly, I miss you

(Chorus)
I didn’t know you’d fall
Just to end it all
Make heaven beautiful
Make heaven beautiful
Make heaven beautiful
Make heaven beautiful
Make heaven beautiful…