Music Video

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder
Keyboards
Greg Phillinganes
Greg Phillinganes
Keyboards
Michael Sembello
Michael Sembello
Lead Guitar
Nathan Watts
Nathan Watts
Bass
Ray Maldonado
Ray Maldonado
Percussion
Raymond Lee Pounds
Raymond Lee Pounds
Drums
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder
Producer
Gary Olazabal
Gary Olazabal
Recording Engineer
John Fischback
John Fischback
Recording Engineer
Jeff Sanders
Jeff Sanders
Mastering Engineer

Lyrics

[Chorus]
Been spending most their lives living in a pastime paradise
Been spending most their lives living in a pastime paradise
Been wasting most their time glorifying days long gone behind
Been wasting most their days in remembrance of ignorance's oldest praise
[Verse 1]
Tell me who of them will come to be?
How many of them are you and me?
[PreChorus]
Dissipation, race relations
Consolation, segregation
Dispensation, isolation, exploitation, mutilation
Mutations, mis-creation, confirmation to the evils of the world
[Chorus]
Been spending most their lives living in a future paradise
Been spending most their lives living in a future paradise
They've been looking in their minds for the day that sorrow's lost from time
They keep telling of the day when the savior of love will come to stay
[Verse 2]
Tell me who of them will come to be?
How many of them are you and me?
[PreChorus]
Proclamation, race relations
Consolation, integration
Verification of revelation, acclimation, or salvation
Vibration, stimulation, confirmation to peace of the world
[Chorus]
Been spending most their lives living in a pastime paradise
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
[Chorus]
We've been spending too much of our lives living in a pastime paradise
Better start living our lives living for the future paradise
Praise to our lives living in a future paradise
Shame to anyone's life living in a pastime paradise
Written by: Stevie Wonder
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