Stevie Wonder
Pastime Paradise lyrics
- Language
- English
- Level
- Advanced
- Released
- 1976
- Genre
- R&B, Pop
- Length
- 3:28
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
They've been wasting most their time
Glorifying days long gone behind
They've been wasting most their days
In remembrance of ignorance oldest praise
Tell me who of them will come to be
How many of them are you and me
Dissipation, race relations
Consolation, segregation
Dispensation, Isolation, exploitation
Mutilation, mutations, miscreation
Confirmation, to the evils of the world
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a future paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a future paradise
They've been looking in their minds
For the day that sorrows gone from time
They keep telling of the day
When the savior of love will come to stay
Tell me who of them will come to be
How many of them are you and me
Proclamation of race relations
Consolation, integration
Verification of revelations
Acclamation, world salvation
Vibrations, stimulation
Confirmation, to the peace of the world
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a future paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a future paradise
We've been spending too much of our lives
Living in a pastime paradise
Let's start living our lives
Living for the future paradise
Praise to our lives
Living for the future paradise
Shame to anyone's lives
Living in the pastime paradise
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Key vocabulary
- anyone's
- belonging to any personA1
- behind
- at the back ofA1
- come
- arriveA1
- confirmation
- act of proving trueC1
- exploitation
- using for profitC1
- ignorance
- lack of knowledgeC1
- they've
- they have (contraction)
- pastime
- activity for fun
- paradise
- perfect peaceful place
- glorifying
- praising highly
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About this song
Stevie Wonder is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer whose work helped define soul, R&B, and funk. He is known for landmark Motown recordings from the 1970s onward, including albums like Talking Book and Songs in the Key of Life, as well as hits such as “Higher Ground” and “I Just Called to Say I Love You.”