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Patti an ihrem 76. Geburtstag im Brooklyn Steel

People Have The Power…

Wenn wir das neue Jahr begrüßen, wollen wir den Geist der Hoffnung und der Einigkeit aus Pattis PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER weitertragen. Gemeinsam haben wir die Macht zu träumen, zu verändern und die Welt zu einem besseren Ort zu machen.

Dieser ikonische Song, der von Patti und Fred Sonic Smith geschrieben und 1988 veröffentlicht wurde, ist ein Aufruf zum kollektiven Handeln und eine Erinnerung an die Kraft aller Menschen sich für Gerechtigkeit und Frieden zusammenzuschließen. Seine zeitlose Botschaft ist wichtiger denn je und ermutigt uns an unsere Fähigkeit zu glauben eine bessere Zukunft gestalten zu können.

Das neue Jahr möge mit Freundlichkeit, Mut und Überzeugung beginnen.
Auf ein neues Jahr der Möglichkeiten, des Fortschritts und des gemeinsamen Handelns. Wir haben die Macht!

PHTP gesprochen, Brooklyn, 2022

Single Cover (Foto: Robert Mapplethorpe)

PHTP in Pattis Handschrift

PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER

I was dreaming in my dreaming
of an aspect bright and fair
and 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
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

The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power
The 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
lay beneath the stars
exchanging visions
and 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

The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power
The 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
I was dreaming in my dreaming
god knows a purer view
as I surrender to my sleeping
I commit my dream to you

The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power

The power to dream, to rule
to wrestle the world from fools
it’s decreed the people rule
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

The people have the power
The people have the power

The power to dream, to rule
to wrestle the world from fools
it’s decreed the people rule
it’s decreed the people rule
we have the power
People have the power
we have the power…

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