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I was proud and moved to visit Occupy: St Paul's Cathedral. I found it a beautiful and inspiring social experiment that was unafraid to question every aspect of how people attempt to live together and build communities.

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OCCUPY YOUR MIND



Just suppose you got to start a thing from scratch.
Would you let just anybody speak?
The articulate, the shy, the somewhat negative
The vocal and the simply meek?

Just suppose you got to choose what shape it was.
Would you call it a democracy?
Would you note the jazz hands, count the secret ballots
Or try to work consensually?

Will you let my questions occupy your thoughts
Will you let my questions occupy your mind?
I am only led to ask you since I’ve met
A community of quite another kind, quite another kind

Just suppose you got to take away the price.
Would you share what you had plenty of?
Would you take what you required and then give back
Of what some others hadn’t any of.

Will you let my questions occupy your thoughts
Will you let my questions occupy your mind?
I am only led to ask you since I’ve met
A community of quite another kind, quite another kind

Just suppose you got to glimpse a different way.
Would you carry it inside of you?
Would you stifle it from fear or let it bloom
Until it blossomed
In the heart of you?



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Words & music by & © Talis Kimberley 13th December 2011

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from FREE ALBUM: Songs of Common Ground, track released February 29, 2012

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Talis Kimberley UK

"I'm a songwriter and singer; my songs are spun from folklore and history, stirred well with a hazel wand and served with cake. I'll sing you ravens and bones and the story behind the story, I'll sing you bread and apples, ghosts and knitting, and bring you home with a pocketful of feathers and hope"

Voice / guitar / English concertina

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