Touch The World

Earth Wind And Fire Touch The World Lyrics
1.System Of Survival

Skylark

The human race is runnin' over me
I punch a clock at 9 and 5
Just tryin' to make a livin'
A plastic face on satellite tv
Says, 'life is filled with give and take'
He's takin' and i'm givin
So i dance

(hook)
It's my system of survival (sos)
I'm dancin'
System of survival (sos)
It's a system of survival
Future revival
Greet the new arrival

(bridge)
At times it's the only way
I'm gonna make it through this day

(chorus)
Everybody get up
Do your dance
Keep survivin'
Everybody get up
Do your dance
Stay alive

A city night
I walk a street in fear
While politicians brag about
A paperwork solution

Another life
I shed another tear
I'm waiting for somebody new
To lead the revolution
So i dance

(hook)
It's my system of survival...
(repeat hook and chorus)
(sos) send it out
Send it out, send it out, send it out...


2.Evil Roy

Philip bailey, allee willis & a.z. giles

Het gets wild at night
Gotta sleep all day
'cause he's wound so tight
Blowing his brains away
He's in the land of the free
And he wants to be
Someone they all say will make good
But what's reality when you're from the hood
It's evil yea, yea, yea

(chorus)
Evil, evil roy, who is fooling who
Don't you know evil evil someone
Watching you

Well he got no job so he peddling-fear
Trying to push so hard
No way out of here
It's just the law of the street
Too much heat

Pressure cooking, gonna explode
But where you gonna be
If you lose control
It's evil yea yea yea

(chorus)

(bridge)
Can't you see that your way
Is going nowhere fast
And your time is just running out
Fighting fire with fire
It will never pass
If evil's what your life's about

(out chrus)
When you take never giving
Hide the pain
You stop living


3.Thinking Of You

Maurice white, wayne vaughn & wanda vaughn

Not to say that i'm a matchmaker
But when it comes to you
You met your match

You're inclined to leave me fascinated
By the things you do
My baby dance

You can bet your bottom dollar honey
I'll be with you through thick and thin

I would love to give a testimony
'bout the way you are, you're my best friend

I've been thinking of you
Got me wondering what would i do
Got me thinking i'll be true
Got me wondering i'm thinking of you
You're the one that makes my love light shine
Every time, morning till night

It's your sentimental way you show
The kind of love you give
Makes it allright

What you give is extraordinary
It's a way of life, i like to live

I could be with you forever,
'cause lovin', gives me a thrill

Girl, i appreciate
The love we generate
You keep me, satisfied
Just the sun, that shines
Deep in this heart of mine
Your love shining thru


4.You And I

R. nevil & m. mueller

Can't imagine how the world would be
If i'd never met you
Don't know how i'd get through

When i need a place to hide away
I've got to run to
Nice to have someone who cares
Your love is my security
Can't you see there could never be...

(chorus)
Anyone else but you
Anyone else but you
Anyone else but you and i
Tonight

If i ever start to turn away
Let your touch remind me
What i'd leave behind me

I could never find another you
What we have together
No one else could ever know

I need your love to keep me strong
Can't you see, baby, i don't want...

(chorus)
Anyone else but you
Anyone else but you
Anyone else but you and i
Tonight

Underneath private skies
Feel so lost in your eyes
The way it works i don't understand
We must be part of some greater plan
All i know is i will never love...

(chorus)


5.New Horizons(Interlude)


6.Money Tight

Maurice white, allee willis & d. sembello

I'm always dreamin' bout my baby
Rent is due, i'm slipping on the job
No time to think about survival
Push for the cash ain't in my heart
'cause there's nothing more that
I'm living for
Than you baby, oh my baby
In this crazy world there is just one girl
It's you baby, oh my baby

(chorus)
Money tight don't feel right
Richest man has no fight alone
Material things don't matter
If your heart don't get that patter in your bones
Money tight with me
You love's all i need

Ain't got no time for superstition
Can't roll the dice and win your heart
When it's love it's strictly business
Once you cheat it only falls apart
And i live each day knowing love will pay
With you baby, oh my baby
Though my porcket's bare, you are always there
For me baby, oh my baby

(chorus)
Money tight don't feel right
Richest man has no fight alone
Material things don't matter
If your heart don't get that patter in your bones
Money tight with me
You love's all i need

(bridge)
Money, money tight for me.
Money, money tight for me.

(vamp)
Money tight don't feel right
The richest man has no fight all alone
Material things don't matter
If your heart don't get that patter in your bones
Money tight with me
Your love's all i need


7.Every Now And Then

Jon lind & brock walsh

I think that the worst is through
I'm almost over you
I guess it was just a matter of time
I've started going out
How long can anybody go without
Before you start goin' out of your mind
Even so, i confess
There are times when my heart rules over my head

(chorus)
Every now and then
I find myself wondering about you baby
Seems now and again
I can't escape the thought of all that
Might have been
Every now and then

Morning's the hardest time
I wake up dreamin' 'bout you and i
Some days i can't remember them all
Evenings are painfull still
I can't help wondering if they always
Will be
I can't help noticing this emptiness-
Baby
I don't cry, every night
Just the ones when i feel like i feel tonight

(chorus)
Every now and then
I find myself wondering about you baby
Seems now and again
I can't escape the thought of all that
Might have been
Every now and then

(bridge)
When i'm alone anytime i hear music play
When i reach, reach for the phone
Why does everything good
Make me think of you baby

(chorus)
Every now and then
I find myself wondering about you baby
Seems now and again
I can't escape the thought of all that
Might have been
Every now and then


8.Touch The World

Rev. oliver wells

She walks with a beat as she works the
Street in the dead of night
She's been laid off and her kids must eat
And his money's right
A world away beneath the sun the earth
Goes dry
A hungry starving people search for
Food as their babies die

(chorus)
I tell you, we can touch the world
When we meet them all at their need
We can touch them where they are
Help them to believe, touch the world

He's on the pipe and he's got the shakes
As he takes a puff
Their badges shine and there's no
Escape as they lock him up
Fourteen years old and without love the
Girl is livin' wild
How can it be a four month pregnancy
And she's the child

(chorus)
I tell you, we can touch the world
When we meet them all at their need
We can touch them where they are
Help them to believe, toucht the world

(bridge)
Round the globe people need to know
The answer's theirs today, someway
Somehow
We must let them know that god gives
Hope and jesus is the way


9.Here Today And Gone Tomorrow

Philip bailey, m. sharron & g. ballard

Wanting you, and watching every move
Turns me all over
Like a first time lover's woo

My heart's, your heart,
And every time you hit that door
There's a chance in a million
I won't see you anymore

Though i never want to leave your side
But we've got to realize we're

(chorus)
Here today and gone tomorrow
Nothing lasts forever and a day
(nothing ever lasts forever)
Here today, and gone tomorrow
This is too good to be real, and i never
Want to say good-bye

I reminisce and savor every kiss
Every moment
For in a moment we are gone

Cherish you, and when the night
Is through
Starting all over,
Spending it with you

It's so precious in the time we spend
'cause when it all comes to an end we're

(chorus)
Here today and gone tomorrow
Nothing lasts forever and a day
Here today, and gone tomorrow
Your love is too good to be true and i
Never want to say good-bye

And when i look into your eyes
I thank god that i'm alive
I can never say i've missed
All of the reasons we're
Here today and gone tomorrow

(repeat chorus)


10.Victim Of The Modern Heart

Ian prince

I took this long to find you
Now i do nothing buth think about you
And though i feel this way
You're telling me it's wrong
It's more than mere insinuation
And far beyond my imagination
If you can't tell yourself allow me
To be strong
You won't believe but i can see
It in you eyes

(chorus)
You're a victim of the modern heart
In your own way afraid of falling in love
A victim of the modern heart
You turn away instead of calling it love
It's love-it's love

It's not the way you planned it
There's nothing that you can do about it
And if you feel the same why must you
Play along
You've got him on your mind
But i'll be there sometime

(chorus)
You're a victim of the modern heart
In your own way afraid of falling in love
A victim of the modern heart
You turn away instead of calling it love
It's love-it's love

You won't believe but i can see
It in your eyes

You're a victim of the modern heart
In your own way afraid of falling in love
A victim of the modern heart
You turn away instead of calling it love
It's love-it's love

(repeat chorus to fade)