Level 42 - Standing in the Light (M. King, P. Gould & W. Badarou)
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[Intro]
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[Verse]
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A summer's day in sixty-eight, sunlight through a window falls a-cross the page
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A young boy tries to concentrate, his mind would rather fly beyond the classroom cage
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He can take the teacher's voice, turn it into music from a-nother place
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All the other kids don't have that choice, hanging on to every word the teacher says

[Chorus]
Dm7 Am7 G       A7                  Dm7      Am7    G       F#m7      G       B7     E7  Am7  Bm7 E7  Am7  Bm7
Day and night - we will be touched, Standing in the light - don't sha-dow the genius

[Verse]
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So out of school he walks alone, soon his thoughts are flowing like a golden stream

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An empty house he calls his own, this place becomes a temple to a silent dream
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Sometimes he will clap and sing, then deep in medi-tation he will learn to be
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And only birds upon the wing, with upward fasci-nation claim to be so free

[Chorus]
Dm7 Am7 G       A7                  Dm7      Am7    G       F#m7      G       B7     E7  Am7  Bm7 E7  Am7  Bm7
Day and night - we will be touched, Standing in the light - don't sha-dow the genius

[Bridge]
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     Your smile,    your freedom,    comes to you from within
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     Still a child     with a reason,     you're af-raid but it's time to begin
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     Blow the wind of  change, though the words are strange -    to hear
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     Say what's on your mind, now is not the time - for fear

[Verse]
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A summer's day in eight-one, sunlight through a window falls a-cross the page
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A young man's fight has just begun, and rising up in-side him is a burning rage
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They called his dream a fantasy, a song that every child has sung since time began
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But just as long as he believes, standing in the light he'll make them understand                       (Fade)