From the recordings Life, Love, and Philosophy and Where Has The Love Gone?
I had been working on two songs at the time. I liked the chord structure for one, but I didn’t have enough material for lyrics. On the other, I had a full set of lyrics that I liked, but the tune was too familiar, and the sound was Country, which wasn’t what I wanted, so I fused the two songs together with this result. It’s about the 60’s, Peace and Love, and the Civil Rights movement which has been perverted and twisted by a bunch of Elitists who have set us against one another.
Lyrics
Where Has The Love Gone ©2022
-Art Wildish Music Group, LLC- Intro: Dm7 Am7 Gm7 – 2x
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I came in on the tail end of a time of choice and change
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Never knowing where those changes all would lead.
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Some believed in their innocence, that love could lead the way
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Trading our freedom for the shelter of a slave.
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Where has the love gone, we gave up our new song, for one that’s old, and tired, and pale.
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Trusting in platitudes, elitists with attitudes, boom to bust, power lust, can we ever be saved?
Guitar Interlude: Dm7 Am7 Gm7 – 2x
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Some believed they could change the world legislating love from rust.
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No problem too great, no solution too flawed, no matter the cost.
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And in the short space of 60 years, they divided us all through our fears.
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Until we can’t tell right from wrong.
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Where has the love gone, we gave up our new song, for one that’s old, and tired, and pale.
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Trusting in platitudes, elitists with attitudes, boom to bust, power lust, can we ever be saved?
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The content of character is replaced, creating divisions, lies, and hate.
Lead Solo: Dm7 Am7 Gm7 – 4x Bb C F Dm - 4x BbDim7/A (pause)
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Dissecting our history And silencing those that disagree.
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Still they can’t change some hearts and minds.
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A story so old it’s new, stealing lives, and efforts too.
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Embracing the caste, replacing the past.
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Where has the love gone, we gave up our new song, for one that’s old, and tired, and pale. (Yes, we did)
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Trusting in platitudes, elitists with attitudes, boom to bust, power lust, can we ever be saved?
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Boom to bust, who can you trust, will we ever change?