Spinning on an Axis

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Rating	Comments	Author	Date
		Daniel Boneschansker	October 19, 2008
	My favorite group as a high-school student was Yes so I know about weird lyrics. But sometimes a lyric is so outlandish that it just disqualifies the entire song from being taken seriously (that is why Jimmy Webb's "MacArthur Park" makes every worst-song list). I just lose it every time I hear Paul singing about the "season of the culture bat". Ranking a close second in the Paul McCartney hitlist is the song from Pipes of Peace, "The Other Me", where Paul sings that he "acted like a dustbin lid".	Bruce Beatlefan	June 3, 2006

Lyrics

World spinning round
To the next revolution
Sun going down
Gonna rise up again

I watch the sun go down
With some sorrow
And now I know it's gonna come back tomorrow
Ain't no reason
It has to do that
It's the season of the culture bat

Spinning on an axis
Spinning on an axis
Staring in the face
Of time and space
Spinning on an axis

World spinning round
To the next revolution
Sun going down
Gonna rise up again

Hear me rising
Rise up and sing, rise up, rise up

Although I'm curious
It isn't a crime
I want to know if I'll
Find out in time
A lot of people busy doing their thing
Gonna wake up and sing

Spinning on an axis
Spinning on an axis
We ask the question
And the answer's yes
Spinning on an axis

I watch the sun go down
With some sorrow
And now I know it's gonna come back tomorrow
Ain't no reason why
It has to do that
It's the season of the culture bat

I watch the sun go down
Wonder if it's gonna come back
Certainly there's no guarantee
But I got a feeling it will be
Spinning on an axis
Spinning on an axis
Spinning on an axis
Spinning on, Spinning on an axis
Spinning on an axis

World spinning round
To the next revolution
Sun going down
Gonna rise up again

World spinning round
To the next revolution
Sun going down
Gonna rise up again
Gonna rise up
Gonna rise up
Gonna rise up
Gonna rise up

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