Progress Happens

from Covid-19 (Postpandemic I) by Madadkin

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There once was a monkey / a very funky monkey
Who fell from a tree / and landed on his knees
And when he tried to get up / he stood up on two legs
His back as straight as iron / and his hands on his head

CHORUS
Things are not what they always seem to be
Progress happens when we leave the tree

There once was a family /a very happy family
Who had a house and a home / till they couldn’t pay the loan
The Banks took and the house / the cops threw them out
Threw them out in the street/ with plenty to shout about

CHORUS 2
Things are not what they always seem to be
Crisis happens cause, we’ve never been free

Imagine there are no countries
Imagine there’s no hell
Imagine there`s no money/ no need to buy or sell
Imagine there’s we're together/ with machine’s that really work
A sci-fi type utopia/ in a planet that we love

CHORUS 3
Things are never what they always seem to be
Progress won’t happen until we know how to be free

Really be free… free from money… free from the tree
Free from the countries… free in the world… a world that we’d love
to be free to be free

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from Covid-19 (Postpandemic I), released July 20, 2020
Words, music, instrumentation and vocals: Paul David Adkin
Additional vocals: Ariadna Santana

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Madadkin Madrid, Spain

MADADKIN (Paul David Adkin) is a singer, composer, musician, novelist, writer of tales, inventor of aphorisms, philosophical blogger, director, dramaturg, video-artist and teacher. Primarily, his work explores the need for a radical progress change and it is deeply humanist. He sings about justice and alienation; politics and religion; and about our technological world. ... more

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