Following twenty albums over 50 years, Yoko Ono's Warzone is strikingly different from any record she has made previously, but it is also strikingly different from any album that anyone is making...
 
Yoko revisits and reimagines 13 songs from her past work, spanning 1970 - 2009, the lyrics and messages still pertinent—perhaps even more pertinent—in 2018. "The world is so messed up. Things are very difficult for everybody. It's a warzone that we are living in..." says Ono. "I like to create things in a new way. Every day things change."
 
In "Woman Power" from 1973, Ono took President Richard Nixon to task:
 
You may be the president now
You may still be a man
But you must also be human
So open up and join us in living
 
Two generations later, the lyrics are still applicable for another man in the White House and “Woman Power” is as topical as ever. In her 1971 essay Feminization of Society (reprinted in the Warzone liner notes), Ono wrote: "I am proposing the feminization of society; the use of feminine tendencies as a positive force to change the world."
 
Our recent presidents and many of our world leaders have never served in the military, yet they continually nourish and serve the corporate-infused military industrial complex, keeping the world in a perpetual warfare. The song "Warzone" is a dark and terror-filled album opener.
 
"I lived through the Second World War as a very young girl and a lot of things happened. Horrible... what a terrible time.... But a good experience for me because it made me a strong woman. You had to know what to do quickly. My brother and sister were very young [and we were separated from our parents and] evacuated and hid in an attic in the countryside. We had water from a dirty well, and no food. We were very hungry. It was a very very dangerous time. I had to be wise to survive, for myself and for my brother and sister."
 
Co-producer and musician Thomas Bartlett played in Yoko's band in 2006. The two kept in touch through the years, occasionally rehearsing in her living room. Thomas played piano on "I Love You Earth,” her 2014 duet recording with Antony. This rerecording of her 1986 song fits hand-in-hand with Yoko's anti-fracking activism. The lyrics, ever more salient today, seem to have foreshadowed the concept and tone of Warzone.
 
The recordings and arrangements on Warzone are very stripped down, with a particular emphasis on Yoko's voice and lyrics. Here in this minimalist landscape the content of her message rings clear and unencumbered; sometimes somber warnings, sometimes uplifting encouragement, but her wisdom and fortitude are unflinchingly strong, her power having intensified with time and life experience. She ends the ominous questions of "Now Or Never" (1971) with one of her most famous and inspiring lines: "[a] Dream you dream alone is only a dream, but dream we dream together is reality."
 
In contrast to the 1970 version of "Why", with John Lennon's savage guitar matching Yoko's furious vocal outrage, the new version features fierce animal cries. Says Yoko: "I wanted the animals to be equally present as the musicians. I started the record with Elephant. The Elephant is speaking for all animals. We are killing them to get ivory tusks - that's the kind of people we are.... [For the recording] we used the animal voices as music instruments - it came out beautiful."
 
Warzone further builds the legacy of an artist unparalleled in her unique and singular vision. At 85 years young, Ono is already plotting her next album... It is not too late to change the world. We need Yoko now more than ever.

Warzone is release number 52 on Chimera Music, run by Sean Ono Lennon. Chimera has been reissuing the Yoko Ono back catalog in partnership with Secretly Canadian Records. 4 reissues are scheduled for later in 2018, and the Yoko Ono / John Lennon Wedding Album is scheduled for March 20, 2019.

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CHESHIRE CAT CRY

I'm rolling in your dreams
Listening to your screams
The memory is covered by the rain of pain
The boat will float
to end of seas
Taking your memory of pain 

When the Cheshire Cat slowly smiles to us
Cheshire Cat
Cheshire Cat
The river is drying
Faster than your memory of pain 
"We the expendable people of the United States
Hold these dreams to be self-destructive"

Cheshire Cat
Cheshire Cat 
Taking your memory of pain with it

Cheshire Cat
Cheshire Cat 
And the boat will float
to end of seas

"We the expendable people of the United States
Hold these dreams to be self-destructive"

Cheshire Cat
Cheshire Cat 

Blood is creating 
A lake of tears of pain
Rain of pain

Stop the violence
Stop all wars
Stop the violence
Stop all wars

Taking your memory of pain with it

"We the expendable people of the United States
Ask for the violence to disappear" 

"We the expendable people of the United States
Hold these dreams to be self-destructive"

Blood Money will give us independence and power

Stop the violence
I’m rolling in your dreams

Stop all wars
Listening to your screams

Stop the violence 
The memory is covered by the rain of pain

Stop all wars     

Cheshire Cat
Cheshire Cat 
Cheshire Cat

Stop the violence
Stop the violence
Stop all wars
Who needs violence?
Who needs war?
Who needs it?
Who needs it?
  

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Words and Music by Yoko Ono
© Ono Music (BMI) 2013

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YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BAND

Yoko Ono - Vocals
Lenny Kravitz - Drums, Clavinet
Sean Ono Lennon - Bass, Electric Guitar, Synth

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TAKE ME TO THE LAND OF HELL

Produced by Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon, and Yuka C. Honda
Recorded at Sear Sound by Christopher Allen
Mixed by Michael H. Brauer for MHB prods
Mixed at Electric Lady Studios
Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering
Kevin Harper - Assistant Engineer
Mark Bengston - ProTools Engineer and Assistant

Geoff Thorpe - Art Director
Greg Kadel - Cover Photography
Sean Lennon - Studio photos
Yoko Ono - Drawings

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YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BAND release the brand new album TAKE ME TO THE LAND OF HELL on Chimera Music on September 17th 2013 

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The album continues an astonishing bout of creativity for Ono, who celebrated her 80th birthday this year and has just curated the hugely succesful Meltdown Festival at Southbank, London. 


"An extraordinary performance by any standard – for a woman in her ninth decade, almost unbelievable" 
Evening Standard, June 2013 


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The truly amazing YOKO ONO releases her brand new album TAKE ME TO THE LAND OF HELL on Chimera Music on Sep 17th. 

The album comes four years after her previous studio album BETWEEN MY HEAD AND THE SKY which received rave reviews and was voted one of Mojo Magazine’s Albums Of the Year. 

That same year Ono was awarded both the Lifetime Achievement Award by Mojo and The Venice Biennale Golden Lion Award for her ground-breaking music and art. 

TAKE ME TO THE LAND OF HELL was recorded in New York and was producedby Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon and Yuka Honda. 

YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BANDalso includes members of Cornelius and Cibo Matto, plus – for this album – tUnEyArDs, Questlove, Nels Cline and Andrew Wyatt. 

The album includes remixes by Mike D & Adrock and Keigo "Cornelius" Oyamada. 

The record was planned and made during a hugely productive period which saw Ono’s 2012 show TO THE LIGHT at London’s Serpentine Gallery break attendance records; she then went on to open HALF-A-WIND SHOW, a major retrospective in Frankfurt, finish her instruction book ACORN, travel extensively to oversee various museum shows, score her 10thNo 1 hit HOLD ME on the Billboard Dance Chart, actively campaign against fracking in New York State, win the MTV O Music Award for 'Digital Genius' and – most recently – plan the Meltdown Festival at Southbank, London, which she curated. 

Yoko’s curatorship is already being hailed as the best in the 20 year history of the festival which this year included a coruscating opening night performance by YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BAND, and guest appearances by Ono with Cibo Matto, Peaches, Kim Gordon and a closing night collaborative performance with Siouxsie of Ono’s seminal “Walking On Thin Ice”. 

Meltdown 2013 featured a huge cross–section of artists including Savages, Kim Gordon, Siouxsie, Cibo Matto, Bo Ningen, Thurston Moore, Iggy Pop, Deerhoof, Patti Smith, Peaches, Marianne Faithfull, Boy George, Patrick Wolf, Reggie Watts, Viv Albertine, Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto, Pussy Riot and Immortal Technique. 

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Praise for Yoko’s performance at Meltdown 2013: 

“It’s a heck of a racket for a gal in her eighties – Yoko is the star but the music offers her the sky to shine in” 
The Independent 

“An international treasure shines. Ono has transcended age – she opened Meltdown 2013 with a blistering, thrilling, cutting-edge musical set which not so much pushed boundaries as ignored them” 
Evening Standard 

“Even at 80 Yoko is out on her Ono” 
Observer 

“Octogenarian’s standing elevated to the angel of the avant garde” 
The Guardian 

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MOONBEAMS, the staggering opening track of the new album, was recently previewed on Soundcloud, ahead of its live premiere as the opening song of Meltdown 2013. 

Ono said today: 
“My new album comes at a very special time for me. I’m so happy that it’s being released after all the incredible shows that made up Meltdown. The energy I have right now, and the desire to continue to make as much great work as I can, is really moving me forwards all the time. This album is the culmination of a lot of ideas I’ve been having over the last few years and I feel proud to release it at such an exciting time of my life.” 

Yoko Ono has a major art retrospective HALF-A WIND SHOW currently on view at the Louisiana Museum in Copenhagen, later opening at Kunsthalle Krems, Austria on 20th November 2013, and another major art retrospective WAR IS OVER! (IF YOU WANT IT) opening on 15th November at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. 

TAKE ME TO THE LAND OF HELL is released on September 17th. 

TAKE ME TO THE LAND OF HELL

CHESHIRE CAT CRY

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O’oh, Central Park,
O’oh, evening skyline,
O’oh, helicopter,
O’oh, firecrackers,
O’oh, July 4th in New York City

O’oh, trees are laughing,
O’oh, windows smiling,
O’oh, water shining,
O’oh, people rolling,
O’oh, July 4th in New York City

I never knew we could be so nice to each other,
I never thought we’d be laughing together,
I never knew life could be so sweet and simple,
I never thought that was possible.

O’oh, papers flying,
O’oh, dogs are chasing,
O’oh, clouds are dreaming,
O’oh, people dancing,
O’oh, July 4th in New York City

I never knew we could be so kind to each other,
I never thought we’d be singing together,
I never knew life could be so sweet and simple,
I never thought that was possible.

O’oh, central park,
O’oh, evening skyline,
O’oh, helicopter,
O’oh, firecrackers.

O’oh, o’oh, o’oh, o’oh, o’oh,
O’oh, o’oh, o’oh, o’oh, o’oh,
O’oh, o’oh, o’oh, o’oh, o’oh,
O’oh, o’oh, o’oh, o’oh. 


Yoko Ono inspires either reverence or indignation whenever her name is mentioned. Being the surviving widow of John Lennon is no easy task, either. But for the last six decades, Ono has been an artist first and foremost. Lennon helped to make her a recording artist. Her own records have been both celebrated and reviled, but her catalog stands on its own and it holds up as a reflection of the artist in her time. Yes, I'm a Witch is a collaborative album with a twist: each of the 16 artists involved with this project was given Ono's entire catalog to listen to and pick a track. They were given the vocal tracks to each song they chose and were also able to pick any instrumental tracks they wanted to use. Most decided to keep just the vocal. The collaborating artists in this amazing mix are Hank Shocklee, Cat Power, Jason Pierce of Spiritualized, the Flaming Lips, Le Tigre, Porcupine Tree, Shitake Monkey, Polyphonic Spree, Antony (with Hahn Rowe), the Apples in Stereo, DJ Spooky, Peaches, the Blow Up, Craig Armstrong, the Brother Brothers, and the Sleepy Jackson. That said, this is no ordinary collaboration. There isn't anything lazy or lackluster about the way these artists use Ono's vocals and her phrasing -- and in some cases the accompanying music. The sum total is not only that Ono is relevant in the 21st century, but more than that, it's -- perhaps -- that the 21st century is ready for Ono. Beginning with Shocklee's "Witch Shocktronica," Ono's manifesto (which is also offered as an outro near the end of the album), her voice and words are woven into, juxtaposed against, folded on top of, and haunted like a ghost through the middle of each of these songs. All of them are performed as such. Check the new electro futurism of "Kiss Kiss Kiss" with Peaches, where Ono's songs and her trademark yowl are set into the heart of the beats here. Then there's Shitake Monkey's "O'Oh," where he sets Ono's killer singsong verses against a wall of samples and breaks,. The track includes a killer sample of the opening riff of Grover Washington, Jr.'s classic "Mister Magic" as the base groove. 

The Blow Up use "Everyman Everywoman" as a full-on psychedelic rave-up worthy of the Kinks circa 1965. Le Tigre drop the bass-throbbing bomb electronic funk with horn loops and backing choruses on "Sisters O Sisters." The Apples in Stereo choose "Nobody Sees Me Like You Do" and turn it into a psych rock love ballad full of vulnerability, ringing bells, and sweeping refrains outlined with synth strings and a big fat keyboard through the middle. The Brother Brothers make "Yes, I'm a Witch" into a towering industrial funk metal groover. Cat Power merely illustrates Ono's voice with a piano and her own subdued backing vocals on "Revelations." The glorious treatment Pierce gives to "Walking on Thin Ice" underscores the loss and heartbreak in the lyric before turning into an acid-drenched celebration of life where tears are part of everything at one time or another. The violence in the mix offers a different dimension to the sparse delivery of the original and brings back the feeling of chaos that Ono must have felt with Lennon suddenly gone. It's among the most impressive selections on the set. Antony and Hahn Rowe's treatment of "Toyboat" is everything you would expect from him: it's tender, simple, childlike. Antony's reverbed piano lines the cut as drum loops and Rowe's double- and triple-tracked violin float around Ono's vocal. It's the most beautiful thing here. The Flaming Lips simply do their thing to "Cambridge 1969/2007." It sounds more like a Lips tune than anything, and the artist's individual identity suffers a bit because of that huge wall of music and noise they construct. There are a few titles that don't work very well, such as the Sleepy Jackson's synthetic disco take on "I'm Moving On" and Polyphonic's all-too-brief "You and I," but most of it's a wonder and a new manner of hearing Ono, not through a lens, but through a prism, as part of a swirling wave of color, texture, rhythm, and artifice that brings her rightful place to the forefront. Highly recommended. 

Thom Jurek, AllMusic.com

Yoko Ono - O'Oh (with Shitake Monkey)

Yes, I’m a witch I’m a bitch I don’t care what you say,
My voice is real, my words speaks truth, I don’t fit in your ways.
I’m not gonna die for you, you might as well face the truth
I’m gonna stick around for quite a while.

We’re gonna say we’re gonna try, we’re gonna try it our way.
We’ve been repressed, we’ve been depressed, suppression all the way.
We’re not gonna die for you, we’re not seeking vengeance
But we’re not gonna kill ourselves for your convenience.

Each time we don’t say what we wanna say, we’re dying.
Each time we close our minds to how we feel, we’re dying.
Each time we gotta do what we wanna do, we’re living.
Each time we’re open to what we see and hear, we’re living.

We’ll free you from the ghettos of your minds,
We’ll free you from your fears and binds
We know you want things to stay as it is
It’s gonna change, baby.

It’s gonna change, baby doll
It’s gonna change, honey ball
It’s gonna change, sugar cane
It’s gonna change, sweetie legs
So don’t try to make cock-pecked people out of us.


Taken from the Yoko Ono album 'A Story'.
Yoko Ono: vocals and background vocals
Ken Ascher: keyboards
Gordon Edwards: bass
Arthur Jenkins: percussion
Rick Marotta: drums
Hugh McCracken: guitars
David Spinozza: guitars
Michael Brecker: tenor sax
Randy Brecker: trumpet
Lewis Del Gatto: baritone sax, bass clarinet;
Alan Rubin: trumpet
George Young: flutes, clarinet

A Story is an album by Yoko Ono, recorded in 1974, during the "lost weekend" sessions in which John Lennon produced Walls And Bridges. The album went unreleased until the 1992 box set Onobox, which featured material from A Story on disc six. It only saw proper release as an individual album in 1997, with the re-issuing of Ono's back catalogue by Rykodisc.


Yoko Ono - Yes, I'm A Witch

I check that no-one else is around, and I take a picture of myself.

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Speeches by Yoko Ono and Dagur B. Eggertsson (Mayor of Reykjavik) at the Lighting of IMAGINE PEACE TOWER on the island of Viðey in Reykjavík, Iceland on the occasion of John Lennon's 75th Birthday, 9th October 2015. www.IMAGINEPEACETOWER.com

Yoko Ono - Speeches at the relighting of IMAGINE PEACE TOWER, 9 October 2015

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📝 Lyrics:

I just walk away
 I don’t look over my shoulder
nothing there to hold me back

I will go my way
steady like a river
see the water carve the stone
a far away fire place
is where I shiver
rather than shivering at home

I will try to safe your soul
I will try to safe your soul
I will try to safe your soul

wherever it’s taking me
 I’ll carry you with me 
deep down inside my heart
oh someday you may forgive me
 cause there’s no whole without the part

I’m not yours to keep
 and I’m leaving you now
I will try to safe your soul
 I will try to safe your soul 
I will try to safe your soul

Carry You With Me

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📝 Lyrics:

throwing stones
somewhere in no man’s land
to keep my body and mind occupied
you’ve been the love I give
I’m the love you hold
the love you know
never wasted
ever lasting
 
I’m running low
breaking
you’re not the one
you’re not the one afterall
I’m not the one 
I’m not the one afterall
 
slowly fading
slowly fading
I don’t want you to go
don’t want you to go
slowly fading
slowly fading
I don’t want you to go
don’t want you to go
 
throwing stones
somewhere in no man’s land
you’re not the one
you’re not the one afterall
 
running low
breaking
you’re not the one
you’re not the one afterall

Slowly Fading

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📝 Lyrics:

On a cold June morning
In a northern town
With no sense of direction when my feet hit the ground
I was just heading out
 
Well, I wandered those streets for an hour or two
‘Till the skies, they opened up
And they brought me to you
And I opened up
 
Christine
Let’s go back to those places that I’ve never been
Because I’ve been
Losing track of those faces that I can’t unsee
I can’t unseen them, Christine
 
She said meet me in the morning
I’ll give you my keys
You can head to my apartment
Take all the time you need
So I took my time
 
I made myself some breakfast
And I slowly fell apart
I realized that I’d been lying from the start
I realized
 
Christine
Let’s go back to those places that I’ve never been
Because I’ve been
Losing track of those faces that I can’t unsee
 
Oh, Christine
Let’s go back to those places that I’ve never been
Now I can’t sleep
No, I can’t sleep
I can’t sleep Christine

Christine

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This is hell in paradise
We're all asleep or paralyzed
Why are we scared to verbalize
Our multi–color dreams

When will we come to realize
We're all stoned or pacified
While the boogie men organize
Their multi–level schemes

Underqualified for love
Overqualified for life
Sticking in our heads in slime
Thinking we're in our prime

Mesmerized by mythology
Hypnotized by ideology
Antagonized by reality
Vandalized by insanity
Desensitized by fraternity
Sanitized by policy
Jeopardized by lunacy

Penalized by apathy
Living in the world of fantasy
Dancing on hot coal
Waiting for the last call
It's Adam's ball
Eve's call
Eve’s call

Wake up, shake up, check out, work out, speak out, reach out, it's time to, time to, time to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to

This is hell in paradise
None of us wish to recognize
But do we want them to materialize 
An endangered species

Exorcise institution
Exercise intuition
Mobilize transition
With inspiration for life


Written by Yoko Ono © Ono Music 1985

Yoko Ono — vocals
Thomas Bartlett — keyboards, electronics 
Nico Muhly — string arrangements
Caleb Burhans, Patti Kilroy, Laura Lutzke, Courtney Orlando — violins 
Animals: Elephant, Baboon, Panther

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Warzone, warzone
We are living in a warzone
It’s a warzone
Men flashing their guns and balls
Women looking like barbie dolls
Wake up, wake up
Hold your life
We’re out to chill, out to kill
Warzone, warzone, warzone

Guys stealing zillions gets away
While we knock each other to make our day
Wake up, wake up
Hold your life
Wake up
They’re out to chill, 
They’re out to kill

Warzone, warzone, warzone, warzone
Warzone

Don’t make us laugh 
with your high minded talk
When all you want from us
Is some pillow talk
Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, Wake up,
Hold your life

Warzone, Warzone, warzone, warzone, warzone, warzone, warzone
We’re living in a warzone
Help us, help us
If you hear me, if you hear me

Please help us


Written by Yoko Ono © Ono Music 1996

Yoko Ono — vocals
Thomas Bartlett — piano, keyboards, electronics 
Animals: crow, elephant, wolf

Are we gonna keep pushing our children to drugs? 
Are we gonna keep driving them insane? 
Are we gonna keep laying empty words and fists? 
Are we gonna be remembered as the century that failed?

People of America, when will we learn?
 It's now or never, there's no time to lose.

Are we gonna keep sending our youth to war? 
Are we gonna keep scarring rice fields and infants? 
Are we gonna keep watching dead bodies over dinner? 
Are we gonna be known as the century that kills?

People of America, when will we stop?
 It's now or never, there's no time to waste.

Are we gonna keep pretending things are alright?
Are we gonna keep our mouths closed just in case? 
Are we gonna keep putting off until it's too late?
 Are we gonna be known as the century of fear?

People of America, when will we see?
 It's now or never, we've no time to lose.
People of America, when will we see? 
It's now or never, we've no time to lose.

Are we gonna keep digging oil wells and gold?
 Are we gonna keep shooting the ones that tries to change? 
Are we gonna keep thinking it won't happen to us? 
Are we gonna be known as the century that kills?

People of America, please listen to your soul, 
We can change the times to century of hope.

'cause...
a dream you dream alone is only a dream,
 But a dream we dream together is reality.


Written by Yoko Ono © Ono Music 1972
Yoko Ono — vocals
Thomas Bartlett — keyboards, electronics 
Marc Ribot — acoustic guitar 
Kassa Overall — drums

Now or Never

Now Or Never

Where do we go from here
Where do we go from here
Where do we go from here
Where do we go from here
If we sweep the bottom of the rivers
We’ll find bodies that shouldn’t be there
If we sweep the courts and the offices
We’ll find heads that shouldn’t be there

Cats on the hill
Ready to kill

Where do we go from here
Where do we go from here
Where do we go from here
Where do we go from here
If we sweep the shelters and asylums
We’ll find women who shouldn’t be there
If we sweep the dark streets and alleys
We’ll find tradesmen who shouldn’t be there
Ding Dong Hell
Pussy in the well
Cats on the hill
Ready to kill

Are you getting ready for
blood and horror
Are you getting ready 
for God and terror
Are you getting ready
For God and Terror

Where do we go from here
Where do we go from here
Where do we go from here
Where do we go from here


Written by Yoko Ono © Ono Music 1996

Yoko Ono — vocals
Thomas Bartlett — piano, electronics 
Doug Wieselman — bass clarinet 
Erik Friedlander — cello

Where Do We Go From Here

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Woman Power!
Woman Power!

Two thousand years of male society
Laying fear and tyranny
Seeking grades and money
Clinging to values vain and phony

Woman Power!
Woman Power!

Do you know that one day you lost 
	your way, man
Do you know that some day you have to 
	pay, man
Have you anything to say
except "Make no mistake about it
I'm the president, you hear!"
I wanna make one thing clear
I'm the president, you hear!"


Woman Power!
Woman Power!

You don't hear them singing songs
You don't see them living life
'Cause they've got nothing to say, but
"Make no mistake about it
I'm the president, you hear!"
"I wanna make one thing clear
I'm the president, you hear!"

Woman Power!
Woman Power!

You may be the president now
You may still be a man
But you must also be human
So open up and join us in living

Woman Power!
Woman Power!

In the coming age of feminine society
We'll regain our human dignity
We'll lay some truth and clarity
And bring back nature's beauty

Woman Power!
Woman Power!

Every woman has a song to sing
Every woman has a story to tell
And make no mistake about it, 
	brothers
We women have the power to move the 
	mountains

We’ll teach you how to cook
We’ll teach you how to knit
We’ll teach you how to care for life,
Instead of killing
Make no mistake about it,
	sisters
We women have the power to change the 
	world

Woman Power!
Woman Power!
Woman Power!
Woman Power!

Woman Power!
Woman Power!

East and West must work together


Written by Yoko Ono © Ono Music 1973

Yoko Ono — vocals
Thomas Bartlett — keyboards, bass, electronics
Marc Ribot — electric guitar 
Kassa Overall — drums
Nico Muhly — string arrangement
Caleb Burhans, Patti Kilroy, Laura Lutzke, Courtney Orlando — violins

Woman Power

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I'm a shy girl, my mother calls me a flat chest
I'm a heavy boy, my father calls me a fat head
I'm a small guy, my friends call me an arm rest
I'm a big girl, the boys call me a water bed

I love all of me
I love all of me
I love all of me
I just wanna be

I'm a yellow girl, you choose to call me slanted eyes
I'm a white boy who fights for his roots and ties
I'm a red woman who cries over her child's hunger
I'm a black man who's come to terms with his anger

I love all of me
I love all of me
I love all of me
I just wanna be

I'm a nomad who writes his words in sand
I'm an aborigine who wishes to save his clan
I'm all people who cry for their land
People of the world walking hand in hand

I love all of me
I love all of me
I love all of me
We just wanna be

Live and let live, live and let live
Live and let live, live and let live

"phew, the cross we carry is so heavy
I wanna sit down for a second. Do you mind?
Not lie down, just sit down
Not too long, just so long

Hey! 
I got an idea
Can't we just burn the crosses instead of people?
I happen to think that's healthy, and it's not blasphemy
So brush your wings, shine your rings
And we can sing.
Are you ready?

I love all of me
I love all of me
we love all of us
We just wanna be

I love all of me
I love all of me
We love all of us
We just wanna be


Written by Yoko Ono © Ono Music 1985

Yoko Ono — vocals
Thomas Bartlett — piano, keyboards
Nico Muhly — string arrangement
Caleb Burhans, Patti Kilroy, Laura Lutzke, Courtney Orlando — violins

I Love All Of Me

I'm Alive

Full stream of @fletchersound's atmospheric dub track "Faucet," a cut from his new EP on his own @tact-recordings label. 

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