Living in the Material World

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Rating	Comments	Author	Date
		Daniel Boneschansker	October 18, 2008
	When you try to sing along with the music, you realize how cumbersome it is to end every line with the words "material world". Like many George Harrison songs ("Old Brown Shoe", "Dark Horse") there isn't much rock in the form of hot guitar licks or drum fills, but rather a sort of momentum-building which picks you up and carries you away very agreeably.	Bruce Beatlefan	March 30, 2006

Lyrics

I'm living in the material world
Living in the material world

can't say what I'm doing here
But I hope to see much clearer,
after living in the material world

I got born into the material world
Getting worn out in the material world
Use my body like a car,
Taking me both near and far
Met my friends all in the material world

Met them all there in the material world
John and Paul here in the material world
Though we started out quite poor
We got 'Richie' on a tour
Got caught up in the material world

From the Spiritual Sky,
Such sweet memories have I
To the Spiritual Sky
How I pray
Yes I pray
that I won't get lost
or go astray

As I'm fated for the material world
Get frustrated in the material world
Senses never gratified
Only swelling like a tide
That could drown me in the
material world

From the Spiritual Sky,
Such sweet memories have I
To the Spiritual Sky
How I pray
Yes I pray
that I won't get lost
or go astray

While I'm living in the material world
Not much 'giving' in the material world
Got a lot of work to do
Try to get a message through
And get back out of this material world

I'm living in the material world
Living in the material world
I hope to get out of this place
by the LORD SRI KRSNA'S GRACE
My salvation from the material world
Big Ending

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