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World Citizen (Samadhi Sound)

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Label info: sound-cd-ss002 Date: April 21, 2004 Type: CD Copyright: 2003 Samadhi Sound IIc / KAB America Inc.
Release info:: Re-issue of Japanese single, different artwork and trackorder.
Re-issue on Samadhi Sound

Tracklisting of the World Citizen EP (sound-cd ss002):
1. World Citizen - short version
2. World Citizen (I Won't Be Disappointed) - short version
3. World Citizen - long version
4. World Citizen (I Won't Be Disappointed) - long version
5. World Citizen - Ryoji Ikeda re-mix

The artwork alone is worth buying this single. Beautiful digi-pack with artwork by Atsushi Fukui and photography by David Sylvian.

Art direction: David Sylvian / Yuka Fujii
Cover artwork: Atsushi Fukui
Photography: David Sylvian
Design: Yuka Fujii for Osmosis
Special thanks to: Ingrid Chavez, Richard Chadwick, Adrian Molloy and Arto Lindsay.

World Citizen (Samadhi Sound)
World Citizen (Samadhi Sound)

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Tracklist

	#		Songs
1	1	World Citizen (taken from the World Citizen EP inlay) There goes one baby's life It's such a small amount She's un-American I guess it doesn't count Six thousand children's lives Were simply thrown away Lost without medicine Inside of thirty days In the New York harbour Where the stocks withheld It was the price we paid For a safer world World is suffering World is suffering World is suffering World Citizen In Madhya Pradesh Where they're building dams They're displacing native people From their homes and lands So they hunger strike Cos they believe they count To lose a single life Is such a small amount In the name of progress And democracy The concepts represented in name only His world is suffering Her world is suffering Their world is suffering World Citizen World Citizen World Citizen And the buildings fall In a cloud of dust And we ask ourselves How could they hate us? Well, when we live in ignorance and luxury While our super powers practice Puppet mastery We raise the men Who run the fascist states And we sell them arms So they maintain their place We turn our backs On the things they done Their human rights record And the guns they run His world is suffering Her world is suffering Their world is suffering World Citizen My world is suffering Your world is suffering Our world is suffering World Citizen Who'll do away with flags Who'll do us proud Remove the money from their pockets, scream dissent out loud Cos God ain't on our side The shoe won't fit And though they think the war is won That's not the last of it Disenfranchised people Need their voices heard And if no one stops to listen Lose their faith in words And violence rises When all hope is lost Who'll embrase the human spirit And absorb the cost? Not one life is taken In my name In my name His world is suffering Her world is suffering Their world is suffering World Citizen My world is suffering Your world is suffering Our world is suffering World Citizen	World Citizen	World Citizen Short version is 4:10
1	2	World Citizen - i won't be disappointed (short version) World Citizen World Citizen I want to feel Until my heart can take no more And there's nothing in this world I wouldn't give I want to break The indifference of the days I want a conscience that will keep me wide awake I won't be disappointed I won't be disappointed I won't be. I saw her face It was a face I didn't know Her sadness told me everything about my own Can't let it be When least expected there she is Gone the time and space that separates us And I'm not safe I think I need a second skin No I'm not safe World Citizen World Citizen I want to travel by night Across the steppes and over seas I want to understand the cost Of everything thats lost I want to pronounce all their names correctly World Citizen World Citizen I won't be disappointed I won't be. She doesn't laugh We've gone from comedy to commerce And she doesn't feel the ground she walks upon I turn away And I'm not sleeping well at night And while I know this isn't right What can you do?	World Citizen - i won't be disappointed (short version)	World Citizen - i won't be disappointed (short version)
1	3	World Citizen (long version) (taken from the World Citizen EP inlay) There goes one baby's life It's such a small amount She's un-American I guess it doesn't count Six thousand children's lives Were simply thrown away Lost without medicine Inside of thirty days In the New York harbour Where the stocks withheld It was the price we paid For a safer world World is suffering World is suffering World is suffering World Citizen In Madhya Pradesh Where they're building dams They're displacing native people From their homes and lands So they hunger strike Cos they believe they count To lose a single life Is such a small amount In the name of progress And democracy The concepts represented in name only His world is suffering Her world is suffering Their world is suffering World Citizen World Citizen World Citizen And the buildings fall In a cloud of dust And we ask ourselves How could they hate us? Well, when we live in ignorance and luxury While our super powers practice Puppet mastery We raise the men Who run the fascist states And we sell them arms So they maintain their place We turn our backs On the things they done Their human rights record And the guns they run His world is suffering Her world is suffering Their world is suffering World Citizen My world is suffering Your world is suffering Our world is suffering World Citizen Who'll do away with flags Who'll do us proud Remove the money from their pockets, scream dissent out loud Cos God ain't on our side The shoe won't fit And though they think the war is won That's not the last of it Disenfranchised people Need their voices heard And if no one stops to listen Lose their faith in words And violence rises When all hope is lost Who'll embrase the human spirit And absorb the cost? Not one life is taken In my name In my name His world is suffering Her world is suffering Their world is suffering World Citizen My world is suffering Your world is suffering Our world is suffering World Citizen	World Citizen (long version)	World Citizen (long version) long version: 6:48
1	4	World Citizen - i won't be disappointed (long version) (taken from the World Citizen inlay) What happened here? The butterfly has lost its wings The air's too thick to breathe And there's something in the drinking water The sun comes up The sun comes up and you're alone Your sense of purpose come undone The traffic tails back to the maze on 101 And the news from the sky Is looking better for today In every single way But not for you World Citizen World Citizen It's not safe All the yellow birds are sleeping Cos the air's not fit for breathing It's not safe Why can't we be Without beginning, without end? Why can't we be? World Citizen World Citizen And if I stop And talk with you awhile I'm overwhelmed by the scale Of everything you feel The lonely inner state emergency I want to feel Until my heart can take no more And there's nothing in this world I wouldn't give I want to break The indifference of the days I want a conscience that will keep me wide awake I won't be disappointed I won't be disappointed I won't be. I saw a face It was a face I didn't know Her sadness told me everything about my own Can't let it be When least expected there she is Gone the time and space that separates us And I'm not safe I think I need a second skin No I'm not safe World Citizen World Citizen I want to travel by night Across the steppes and over seas I want to understand the cost Of everything thats lost I want to pronounce all their names correctly World Citizen World Citizen I won't be disappointed I won't be. She doesn't laugh We've gone from comedy to commerce And she doesn't feel the ground she walks upon I turn away And I'm not sleeping well at night And while I know this isn't right What can you do? I won't be disappointed I won't be disappointed I won't be.	World Citizen - i won't be disappointed (long version)
1	5	World Citizen (Ryoji Ikeda remix) What happened here? The butterfly has lost its wings The air's too thick to breathe And there's something in the drinking water The sun comes up The sun comes up and you're alone Your sense of purpose come undone The traffic tails back to the maze on 101 And the news from the sky Is looking better for today In every single way But not for you It's not safe All the yellow birds are sleeping Cos the air's not fit for breathing It's not safe Why can't we be Without beginning, without end? Why can't we be? And if I stop And talk with you awhile I'm overwhelmed by the scale Of everything you feel The lonely inner state emergency I want to feel Until my heart can take no more And there's nothing in this world I wouldn't give I want to break The indifference of the days I want a conscience that will keep me wide awake I won't be disappointed I won't be disappointed I won't be. I saw a face It was a face I didn't know Her sadness told me everything about my own Can't let it be When least expected there she is Gone the time and space that separates us And I'm not safe I think I need a second skin No I'm not safe I want to travel by night Across the steppes and over seas I want to understand the cost Of everything thats lost I want to pronounce all their names correctly She doesn't laugh We've gone from comedy to commerce And she doesn't feel the ground she walks upon What can you do? What can I do? World Citizen World Citizen	World Citizen (Ryoji Ikeda remix)	World Citizen (Ryoji Ikeda remix) Extreme make-over of World Citizen by Ryoji Ikeda