First World

Swansong over the rooftops
Call to the kid next door
Let it be proclaimed in the wind and the rain
Gotta do that

Do you really think so ?
Do you really think so ?

Hope the light of the first world
Won't dark the light of the third world
Wash the darkness from your eyes
It's time to let your nature rise
Roses in the garden
Hummingbirds and butterflies
Flutter by

Swansong over the rooftops
Call to the kid next door
Let it be proclaimed in the wind and the rain
Gotta do that

Do you really think so ?
Do you really think so ?

Hope the light of the first world
Won't dark the light of the third world
Wash the darkness from your eyes
It's time to let your nature rise
Roses in the garden
Hummingbirds and butterflies
Flutter by

Hope the light of the first world
Won't dark the light of the third world
Wash the darkness from your eyes
It's time to let your nature rise
Roses in the garden
Hummingbirds and butterflies
Flutter by

Do you really think so ? (x11)

Lyrics by:
Brown / Ibrahim

Available on:
Golden Greats (5.08)

Details:
First World, which has strong verses but a quite tiresome chorus, is a combination of two different songs that Brown and Aziz had written. Brown was inspired by an old Mexican folk song about the sun of the First World blocking out the sun of the Third World, to contrast the natural beauty of the Third World with the regimented structure of the First World:

"First World is two different songs me and Aziz had come up with spliced together. There's an old Mexican folk song about sun of the First World blocking out the sun of the Third World and this inspired me to contrast the beauty of the Third World - butterflies and humming birds - with the brick estates of the First World. There are parts of the First World (US, UK, Germany, Japan, France etc) that are Third World and parts of the Third World are like a First World. Fucked up, right ?" (Ian Brown, Ian Brown Official site)

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