Pastime Paradise Songtext
von Stevie Wonder

They′ve been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
They′ve been wasting most their time
Glorifying days long gone behind
They've been wasting most their days
In remembrance of ignorance oldest praise

Tell me who of them will come to be
How many of them are you and me
Dissipation, race relations
Consolation, segregation
Dispensation, Isolation, exploitation
Mutilation, mutations, miscreation
Confirmation, to the evils of the world


They've been spending most their lives
Living in a future paradise
They′ve been spending most their lives
Living in a future paradise
They′ve been looking in their minds
For the day that sorrows gone from time
They keep telling of the day
When the savior of love will come to stay

Tell me who of them will come to be
How many of them are you and me
Proclamation of race relations
Consolation, integration
Verification of revelations
Acclamation, world salvation
Vibrations, stimulation
Confirmation, to the peace of the world

They've been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
They′ve 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
We've been spending too much of our lives
Living in a pastime paradise


Let′s start living our lives
Living for the future paradise
Praise to our lives
Living for the future paradise
Shame to anyone's lives
Living in the pastime paradise