:: KATISSE :: Lyrical Worker :: 02 Higher Power ::




										.....KATISSE .....Lyrical Worker .....Track 2: "Higher Power" .....Words and music by Katisse .....©2007 Look Further Music BMI
									Verse 1- Lift every voice and sing for the beauty of the culture the tiny body of the outcast could never outlast the night flight of the vulture torn to the bone is the infrastructure of a heritage at a time when they’d best repair a bridge that’s fallen through a generation gap a compound fracture for a nation strapped did not your father ever teach you respect and love you bestow I beseech you back to the mother land but if I meet you offer up a sacrifice like machu piccu fold like a soul with a hole you can peek thru we don’t look kindly on that type of thing hells bells you’re gonna hear ‘em ring access the direct effect of your darkest hour you’ll know the truth when a higher power will remind Chorus- A higher power will remind He came into this life but soon he left he left behind Love Verse 2- A moon for the misbegotten covered with weeds and deeds from a life that was rotten you’ll do it again and again and again millennia living in a lion’s den maybe one day you’ll climb out of that whole you created and join us in the land of the living elated rise to a state of grace like a phoenix for all those left behind pull out a Kleenex and wipe away the tears from their faces repair the damage from the years of disgraces you got a lot of big payback for the trouble it’s takes a lot of inspiration to make rubble for every action there’s an equal and opposite and even if you don’t think that it’s true there comes a time when you’ll be blown to bits too and I’ll be standing far away when it hits you Chorus Bridge- Sleep tight child of myself All night in my arms though we’ve never met Reigns will fall though tears will last Condemned us all repeat the past Burned into flesh is the last stigmata of a soul recycled like a plastic bottle evidence of benevolence and settle this once and for all and all for one ego breaking the cosmic law we all bleed so long as we’re more than a bar-code inanimate object with the logic of charcoal and set the bar low with each new body and identity preventing me from seeing the enemy I bet on these odds so outrageous we climb one step at a time from the lower ages one day the rage will all dispense when common decency is common sense what ever kind of box you fit us in the world citizen can’t live without a purpose with verses that leave you in lurches the scholar immerses intolerant followers in flowers and hearses please stay with my guardian angel age old sages pray while I say this Chorus Song info- I wrote the lyrics for this tune while I was on tour in France in 2001. Upon waking up at the hotel I read in the paper that the Taliban had blown up the many statues of The Buddha in Afghanistan. I got on the tour bus and sat in the back feeling pretty bummed, so I scribbled out these words. Corei sounds so great on this tune! We actually sent him the track in Nashville, and he overdubbed all the parts and sent it back. Tony Shepperd has recorded and mixed all the Take 6 records, and that was the vibe we were going for initially. Corei has toured with Take 6, and he really captured that vibe and augmented it with his own unique flavor. He killed it! One of my favorite spots on the record is Dennis Hamm’s solo on the outro vamp. Dennis is (always) truly composing as he improvises and here is no exception. He knocked this out in one take. Katisse- Vocal, Tenor and Alto Saxophones Corei Taylor- Vocal, Vocal Arrangement Kate Higgins- Vocal Chris Wabich- Drums Jimmy Haslip- Bass Dennis Hamm- Keyboards Back to main Lyrical Worker On-Liner Notes