Citizen Of The Planet

 
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I start up in the north 
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I grow from special seed  
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I sprinkle it with sensibility from French and Hungarian snow  
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I linger in the sprouting until my engine?s full  
 
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Then I move across the sea  
To European bliss  
To language of poets  
As I cut the cord of home  
I kiss my mother?s mother  
Look to the horizon  
 
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Wide eyed, new ground  
Humbled by my new surroundings  
 
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I am a citizen of the planet  
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My president is kwan yin  
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My frontier is on an airplane  
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My prisons: homes for rehabilitating  
 
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Then I fly back to my nest 
I fly back with my nuclear but everything is different  
So I wait, my yearn for home is broadened, 
Patriotism expanded by calling from beyond  
So I pack my things nothing precious all things sacred  
 
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I am a citizen of the planet  
My laws are all of attraction  
My punishments are consequences  
Separating from source the original sin  
 
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I am citizen of the planet  
Democracy?s kids are sovereign  
Where the teachers are the sages  
And pedestals fill with every parent  
 
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And so, the next few years are blurry 
The next decades? a flurry of smells and tastes unknown  
Threads sewn straight, through this fabric, 
Through fields of every color, one culture to another  
 
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I come alive and I get giddy 
I am taken and globally naturalized  
 
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I am a citizen of the planet  
From simple roots through high vision  
I am guarded by the angels  
My body guides the direction I go in  
 
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I am a citizen of the planet  
My favorite pastime edge stretching  
Besotten with human condition  
These ideals are borne from my deepest within