People Have the Power Songtext
von Patti Smith

I was dreaming in my dreaming
Of an aspect, bright and fair
And in my sleeping it was broken
But my dream, it lingered near

In the form of shining valleys
Where the pure air recognized
And my senses newly opened
Well, I awakened to the cry

That the people have the power
To redeem the work of fools
Upon the meek the graces shower
It′s decreed the people rule

People have the power
People have the power
People have the power
People have the power


Vengeful aspects became suspect
And bending low as if to hear
And the armies ceased advancing
Because the people had their ear

And the shepherds and the soldiers
And they lay beneath among the stars
Exchanging visions, laying arms
To waste in the dust

In the form of shining valleys
Where the pure air recognized
And my senses newly opened
I awakened to the cry

People have the power
People have the power
People have the power
People have the power

Where there were deserts, I saw fountains
Like cream, the waters rise
And we strolled there together
With none to laugh or criticize


And the leopard and the lamb
Lay together truly bound
I was hoping in my hoping
To recall what I had found

And I was dreaming in my dreaming
God knows a purer view
As I lay down into my sleeping
I commit my dream to you

People have the power
People have the power
People have the power
People have the power

The power to dream, to rule
To wrestle the world from fools
Well, it's decreed, the people rule
Well, it′s decreed, the people rule

Listen, I believe everything we dream
Can come to pass through our union
We can turn the world around
We can turn the earth's revolution

We have the power
People have the power
People have the power
People have the power

The power to dream, to rule
To wrestle the world from fools
Well, it's decreed, the people rule
Well, it"s decreed, the people rule

We have the power
We have the power
People have the power
We have the power