The challenge was to write a song about Rupert Murdoch without actually being obscene or offensive. Impossible, you say? Well, we believe we've done it!
From the CD The Times We've Been Through.
The challenge was to write a song about Rupert Murdoch without actually being obscene or offensive. Impossible, you say? Well, we believe we've done it!
What Profits It A Man?
by Peter Hicks and Geoff Francis
What profits it a man to gain the World If it costs him his own soul? What profits it a man to gain the World If it costs him his own soul? Listen to the birds There's music in their words And its power can make you whole, Listen to the trees, And the whispers of their leaves, There's so many lives they hold, What profits it a man to gain the World If it costs him his own soul? Listen to the winds, They're telling you one thing, As you hear them roar and roll, And listen to the seas, With every wave they leave A message centuries old, What profits it a man to gain the World If it costs him his own soul? The birds, the trees, the wind, the seas, Listen, listen, listen. Listen to the Earth, That gave our people birth, Before we grow too old, And listen to the pain Of those people bound in chains, Whose stories must be told, What profits it a man to gain the World If it costs him his own soul? Oh, what profits it a man to gain the World If it costs him his own soul?
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