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Things I Gotta Say by ‘Les Paul’s’ (The Paul’s) is from the album Time To Get Real
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That historical weight deepens further on Things I Gotta Say, a moral inventory spanning the Holocaust to the atomic strikes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. References to Oppenheimer, described in the lyrics as Father Robert, alongside Einstein and President Truman, underscore the uneasy intersection of science, ambition, and political power. The track functions as a warning, urging listeners to speak uncomfortable truths before time runs out and history renders its judgment.
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Things I Gotta Say lyrics
I got things I gotta say before I go
I got things I gotta say before I go
I know you won’t wanna hear, you want wanna know
But I got things I gotta say before I go
Today is tomorrow’s history, what will be is a mystery
Today is tomorrow’s history, what will be is a mystery
You gotta think before, no, no matter what you do
You gotta think before, no matter what you do
No matter what you do
History can’t be erased, no matter what they say
I said history can’t be erased, no matter what they say
How do you want the future to remember you
You show your power to the trembling flowers
Who fall on their knees before you
You demand respect, it’s what you shakingly get
Be it from Christians, Muslims or Jews
You say that you care, for your allies everywhere
By giving them lots of aid, Lord
But nothing in life’s for free, we can agree
That you will eventually demand to be repaid
But money can’t buy you love, we’ve been told that enough
Actions speak louder than words
And all your war talk with your John Wayne walk
Leaves no mistake what we have all heard
At the end of the day and you declare that you’ve won
The flowers cry My God what have they done
My God what have they done
You flew everyday over the camps below
You can’t say that you didn’t know
The rising smoke was a sign
After all that war mongering
You could have stopped the suffering
Why didn’t you bomb the train lines
Why didn’t you bomb the train lines
And they just carried on aware
That world leaders didn’t really care
About all those below being killed
They were assisted by the church
Hiding them as they searched
Saying their deaths must be God’s will
After they scattered like rats on the run
Survivors cry Oh God what have they done
Oh God what have they done
Father Robert sent his Little Boy and Fat Man
To go and destroy all they can
From high above with fire
To do what they were told to do
Innocent people would be killed by you
A strong stomach would be required
As the mushroom cloud blotted out the sun
The pilot screamed Oh God what have we done
Oh God what have we done
Oh God what have we done
It was done to show your power to the Reds
You didn’t care about all the dead
As Robert and Einstein bowed their heads
And Harry the tough pragmatist
Called Robert a cry baby scientist
For daring to show sympathy and regret
His career was destroyed by whispered rumours
He was treated like a cancerous tumour
And was labelled a commie threat
It’s a twisted world we’re in
And for as long as the earth spins
It will always be the same
Will the war cry of ‘The power and the glory’
Become the epitaph of man’s story
To be forever clothed in shame
As God cries what have you done
What have you done
Oh what have you done
Lord, what have you done
Music composed and performed by Paul Odiase BMI No. 1252265 (Switzerland)
Song lyrics by Paul Robert Thomas PRS No. 497904008 (London)
PRS Tunecode: 067752UG
Audiosparx Catalog ID: 1443453 ISRC: US5UL2671803
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